Category Archives: Net Nanny Follies

A Flickr fix

Nanny may not willingly take her meds, but nothing’s stopping the kids from slipping her a mickey. Regarding Nanny’s recent filtering of Flickr.com, Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and general manager of Flickr.com, offered some advice on a recent CNET News.com blog … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia unblocked

The English version of Wikipedia is accessible in China. The Chinese version at zh.wikipedia.org is still blocked. Ash in Qingdao and Feng 37 in Guangzhou have confirmed that the ‘unblock’ is nationwide. Below is a brief history of the ongoing … Continue reading →

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Torture the Net Nanny voodo doll

This person has blocked many websites that we love. Click on the photo to stick a pin into him (or her?) Keso, the king of China’s tech bloggers has written a post cursing China’s Net Nanny — Great FireWall as … Continue reading →

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Flickr.com filtered in China

Photo-sharing website Flickr.com seems to have been attacked by the Net Nanny. Although it is still possible to load the website and even to log on and upload photos, the Nanny is using some type of filtering technology that stops … Continue reading →

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Han Han on the death of Huang Ju

Han Han writes about Huang Ju (黄菊), whose name is filtered from Sina’s blogs. Also, flags at half-mast.

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Case against Net Nanny postponed by court

As reported earlier on Danwei, a Shanghainese man who blogs under the name Yeetai has sued his Internet connection provider China Telecom. His complaint is that his U.S. hosted website was blocked, and China Telecom will not or cannot explain … Continue reading →

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Answers.com blocked unblocked in China

Answers.com, the NASDAQ listed for profit website that makes heavy use of Wikipedia content has been blocked by China’s Net Nanny. Wikipedia has been blocked since November last year, after a brief period of being accessible. It seems that the … Continue reading →

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A recruitment ad for virtual cops

Ran Yunfei (冉云飞) and Huang Yilong (黄一龙) write about recruiting Internet cops in Chengdu. (专职’天网’监控管理员)

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Shanda sells gamers a way around the anti-addiction system

Shanda (盛大) sells its gamers a way around the anti-addiction limitations.

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Baidu Japan blocked in China

The delicious ironies of 21st century China: Baidu.com — China’s premier search engine — has a Japanese site at baidu.jp which has just been blocked by China’s Net Nanny. Welcome to the big wide world Baidu! It’s a scary place, … Continue reading →

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