Tag Archives: net nanny

BBC website unblocked, mostly

Danwei was first alerted last week to the availabiity of most of the BBC’s website by Zhongguoist (site currently down). While parts of the BBC’s huge network of websites have always been accessible in China, many news pages have been … Continue reading →

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Youtube’s back

Youtube returns in March 2008.

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Chinese Net Nanny on the rampage

Youtube is blocked, the websites of The Guardian and L.A. Times newspapers are not currently accessible in Beijing; we have reader reports of the Yahoo home page not loading from around the country. In addition, web pages with high numbers … Continue reading →

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Money and angry youth to crush Nanny?

A video interview with Duncan Hewitt about Net censorship: ‘Money and angry people will play a growing role in the battle against China’s Great Firewall’.

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AIDS websites shut down

AIDS and hepatitis websites shut down.

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Real name system for Beijing Internet cafés

A report saying that Beijing’s Net cafés will all have real name registration systems by the end of the year.

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Blogspot accessible in Beijing

Blogspot back? Not likely.

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How does China censor the Internet?

James Fallows writes in the Atlantic on the Golden Shield project.

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China Telecom blocking Skype?

Is Skype being blocked by China Telecom?

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Granite Studio decentralized

The excellent Granite Studio blog (“A Qing historian reads the newspaper”) has moved from Blogspot, usually blocked in China, to its own server at Granitestudio.org. As Chairman Mao said, “Command cannot be highly centralized otherwise guerrilla action is too limited … Continue reading →

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