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December 9, 2009
Web sites blocked in China
Currently I am sleepless in a hotel in Shanghai, where I am teaching a four-day module on IT and technology management at the NSM-Fudan MBA program the Fudan University School of Business. I do this about twice a year.
Every time I am here, I try to figure out what websites are blocked by the "great Internet wall". It differs from time to time, and between the hotel and the university. Currently, I cannot get to
- Youtube (but Google Video is available, can't show Youtube videos, though)
- Facebook (but Gmail works fine)
- Bloglines
- various blogs, including anything from Blogger.com og Blogspot.com
- bit.ly and other redirectors/URL shorteners
On the other hand, Wikipedia is available, as are all the big news services. It seems self-publishing is seen as more dangerous than anything hewing to a more traditional process. Or, rather, sites where you can self-publish in Chinese, outside of China.
Posted by Espen at December 9, 2009 10:50 PM
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The official name is "Great (Fire) Wall of China", that's actually one of the few IT "innovation" in Chinese IT industry, based on the out-dated IPv4 architecture, the government need a new "disruptive" solution for the upcoming IPv6 world,we will see...
Posted by: Zhenyu at December 10, 2009 8:50 PM