Category Archives: Net Nanny Follies

Party Congress ends, Blogspot blocked again

Posted on 2007-10-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Popular Google-owned blog host Blogspot was suddenly accessible in China on October 15 or 16 this year, after a period of being blocked. The 17th Party Congress started on October 15. The 17th Party Congress ended yesterday. Today, Blogspot is … Continue reading →

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172 million Internet users in China

Posted on 2007-10-22 by maya

Up and up and up At the Seventh China Hi-Tech Trade Fair, held recently in Shenzhen, Ministry of Information Vice-Minister Lou Qinjian announced that, as of September 2007, China had 172 million Internet users. This figure represents a 10 million … Continue reading →

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Youtube blocked in China

Posted on 2007-10-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Youtube blocked, October 2007.

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Net Nanny takes her meds

Posted on 2007-10-16 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China’s Net Nanny has unblocked the Google-owned blog host Blogspot. Blogspot has been blocked since June this year, but have a look at this Danwei post to see the on-again ogg-again approach the Nanny has taken to messing with the … Continue reading →

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18,401 websites shut down

Posted on 2007-09-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Last week Danwei republished some annoyed comments from Chinese bloggers who reported that thousands of websites and servers have been shut down this month, presumably in the run-up to the 17th Party Congress when all netizens should be aware that … Continue reading →

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Chinese bloggers endure harmony overload

Posted on 2007-09-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China’s Net Nanny harmonizes the Internet before the 17th Party Congress, scheduled to start on October 15, 2007

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WordPress blog host unblocked

Posted on 2007-07-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China’s Net Nanny seems to have unblocked the WordPress blog hosting service which has been inaccessible since February 2006. Weifang Radish is the only China-related blog hosted on WordPress that your correspondent knows of, but feel free to add others … Continue reading →

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Blogsome sort of blocked

Posted on 2007-06-26 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Net Nanny, not satisfied with the recent blocking of Typepad, is on the rampage again. This time her target is the relatively unknown blog host, Blogsome.com. Strangely enough, not all blogs on the site are blocked, but many are, … Continue reading →

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Nanny’s little list

Posted on 2007-06-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Ho hum, the Typepad blog hosting and software service was blocked in China sometime last week. This means that China Law Blog, Useless Tree, Kaiser Kuo and Tim Johnson’s China Rises are not accessible in Mainland China. Decentralization is key … Continue reading →

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More Chinese mockery of Net Nanny

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Danwei recently reported on a virtual voodoo doll that Chinese netizens have been using to ‘torture’ the Net Nanny or GFW (Great Firewall). Yesterday the excellent online news roundup website Memedia posted this week’s summary. It included the following graphic … Continue reading →

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