Image from WikipediaChinese bloggers report that after the unblocking of the other sites of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, now also the Chinese version is available, reports CNET. It looks that the unblocking of websites that started earlier this month.That does of course not mean that the internet filtering has been abolished, as the IOC might hope: China might be changing fast, not that fast. I have not seen too many stories about the new way of censoring the internet, apart from a few observations I made myself.
This is for the time being all an assumption and I would be very eager to get some more feedback on how this is technically working. Do we have a new nanny?
Update: I'm getting some reports saying that in for example Guangxi Chinese Wikipedia is still blocked. (See comment.) It might be because both blocking and unblocking might go in a different speed in different regions (and sometimes not happen at all}.
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Sorry, but the Chinese Wikipedia remains firmly blocked (at least, here in Guagnxi).
Thanks for the link. I'm writing because the person who alerted me to the Wikipedia workaround decided he regretted making it public. I'm trying to start a discussion on whether we as bloggers should post workarounds for blocks. My initial post is here:
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13908_1-9912536-59.html
Please weigh in if you have any thoughts!
I know the discussion and I have been blamed also now and then for sharing rather publicly solutions to avoid our internet nanny. I always found it important to share that information with other. Of course, my own opportunities to get online what I want are my first concern, but since the internet is all about exchange and getting access, helping others out would certainly come on the second place.
The danger of nanny discovering holes in the GFW because of what I'm writing is mostly not that huge. In most cases "they" would know it anyway and educating others in the way to avoid those blocks seems more important.
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