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Net Nanny Follies
Picking off the small troublemakers...Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, January 1, 2010 9:38 AM
... One by one. From Global Voices:
As we found out when Danwei.org was blocked in July 2009, the Net censors in China are going after small websites and blogs hosted on servers outside of China. Any website about China with a certain amount of influence within China that publishes anything about certain sensitive subjects is fair game for the Great FireWall treatment. Welcome to 2010. Links and Sources
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Comments on Picking off the small troublemakers...
For some mysterious reasons, Nanny suddenly decides to unblock Wordpress. My blog, which has never been accessible in China before, is finally unblocked, even though I have been writing nothibng but taboo topics, as always. I checked other Wordpress blogs, including a Free Tibet one and a FLG one. They are all accessible from behind the Great Fire Wall. I reckon Nanny is too busy dealing with all these big fish that she decides to let the small ones go.
lianyue.net, yonghu.hu, youtube, blogspot, danwei.org etc... are all directly accessible for me right now- Beijing, 22:27, Jan., 4 2010.
well, that was short lived... everything blocked again.
Can you tell us if there's still traffic from China to your website? The Alexa.com shows 19.9% of your visitors are coming from China, are they subscribers or just WuMao? I'm interested in the effectiveness of the GFW...
Yes, there are a lot of people using VPNs and other tricks to get around the GFW and access Danwei.
I have no idea about the accuracy of Alexa's numbers. Google Analytics shows a mere handful of visitors from China, but Google's stats are based on IP addresses, so people using VPNs to access our website will appear to be coming from wherever there VPN server is located.