I can get NYT through Google Reader in Sunny Shanghai.

I can get access to the website, but I can get through that page you mentioned in your post.

One site I've noticed having suddenly to use a proxy for is openDemocracy; they've been publishing a regular column by Li Datong which I suspect may be the cause but of course you never know as the whole system is opaque.

for me the nytimes,bbc and voa are accessable,mingpao is not

I keep seeing these "NY Times blocked in China" stories, but I haven't had any difficulties accessing the New York Times in Nanjing, including the Jim Yardley article mentioned above.

Has anyone managed to collar a govt. spokesperson and ask them about this? It would be interesting to hear a response, even if it is a non-answer.

I want to read that time's article...

Big deal. Only expats and tiny fraction of Chinese netizens read them. And those who read them can get pass the fire wall with a proxy. The firewall is becoming only a formality. Everyone knows how to get pass them nowadays.

The attitude of blocking websites because you are upset they said something mean is absolutely adolescent. I hope the people in charge grow up soon and join the rest of the world at the adult table.

I live in Shenzhen and have not been able to access the NY Times' home page for 3 days now.

@abde says "only expats and tiny fraction of Chinese netizns read them."

This is accurate, but I do find it significant because it indicates that the Chinese government continues to take action to censor not just blogs and web sites of radically anti-China groups, but also mainstream foreign media that devotes quite a bit of coverage to China-related issues.

Personally, I do hope that full access will be restored. I have lived in China for 20+ years, and I find that -- "The Economist" excepted -- the "NY Times" offers me the most insight into China of any mainstream media I know of in English, French or Chinese.

It's interesting to know that NYT's most senior columnist Thomas Friedman is visiting China this week. Maybe there's a connection but who knows.

Still blocked for me in Nanjing, although no problems with the http:// workaround.

Comrades:

In re to being unwashed, ah, well, allow me to pick up the tab when we meet, and share with you my memories of 2003, the year that the district gov't shut off the water to my apartment building for the entirety of the Chinese New Year. Now, off to figure out an excuse for referring to the law bloggers as "poorly compensated." Oy.

Unblocked in Guangzhou at the time of this post, but was blocked this AM.

@Jeremy or Joel this may be asking a bit much, but can you point to the original Chinese version of the charter in question? my google fu is weak

bocaj

The Wikipedia entry on the charter has plenty of links.

Unblocked (and pretty zippy, to boot) for me in Nanjing Monday evening.

re. Minter's statement:

Quite honestly, I think most Chinese officials would have a hard time believing that the rather rag-tag unwashed mass of (for the most part) young, male, poorly compensated bloggers could actually drive news coverage.

i've seen little evidence thus far to suggest that any quorum of these poorly compensated male bloggers is "young," as that term is usually defined.