Tag Archives: net nanny

Net Nanny vs. Great Firewall

Posted on 2008-01-18 by Jeremy Goldkorn

GFW or Net Nanny?

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Blogspot unblocked and Nanny’s Little List

Posted on 2008-01-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Blogs on Blogspot, the Google-owned blog hosting service, are accessible again in China today. This is the latest episode the Net Nanny’s long and silly on-again off-again harassment of Blogspot. The RSS feed managing site Feedburner, also owned by Google, … Continue reading →

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Digging for porn in China

Posted on 2008-01-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Some enterprising Chinese web master has started a site at Saohuang.cn that purports to be an aggregator of user complaints about immoral Chinese web pages.

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Blogspot unblocked

Posted on 2007-12-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Blogspot unblocked, again!

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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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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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Nonsense reporting about China

Posted on 2007-10-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Slate gets it wrong on Dalian and media censorship; Ars Technica and Boing Boing fear-monger about rss blockage in China.

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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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