Category Archives: Net Nanny Follies

Will porn get Baidu Japan blocked in China?

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Chinese search engine Baidu has a Japanese version at baidu.jp. The below is excerpted from a promising new English-language blog written by a Chinese guy, Ya I yee: Baidu Japan’s Porn Images Baidu, the leading search engine in China, recently … Continue reading →

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Foreign blog providers blocked

Posted on 2007-03-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China’s Net Nanny is having some kind of emotional issue: in the last few weeks, Livejournal, Xanga, and Blogspot have all been blocked. The Nanny has been playing a game with Blogspot for sometime now. It was first blocked in … Continue reading →

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Mature content

Posted on 2007-03-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Roland Soong of ESWN writes from New York: I tried to access Danwei from my New York City office and I got this message: Access Denied (content_filter_denied) You have been denied access to the requested URL: Category: Adult/Mature Content;News/Media This … Continue reading →

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Livejournal blocked in China?

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Blog and online diary platform Livejournal seems to be blocked in Beijing, and also in Shenzhen, according to Mary Ann O’Donnel, author of Shenzhen Field Notes. Can readers elsewhere in the country confirm? Please leave a comment or send email … Continue reading →

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Gallery of airbrushed photos

Posted on 2006-12-26 by Joel Martinsen

A gallery of airbrushed images from 20th century Soviet and Chinese history.

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Blogspot working in Beijing again

Posted on 2006-11-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China’s Net Nanny is acting bipolar. After unblocking Blogspot and then blocking it again, the Nanny unblocked Wikipedia, then blocked it again. Wikipedia remains blocked, but today, Blogspot is once again available in Beijing. So you can once again read … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia unblocked, but is Nanny throttling Youtube uploads?

Posted on 2006-10-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Youtube problems. October 2006.

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