Three cheers for everyone with the guts to take on the Party and use all legal processes to challenge the Party's rejection of freedom of speech and freedom of press. Change takes a long time in China, but come it must. Perseverance is the answer, and the groundswell of protest will grow and grow until the Party has no choice but to listen and respect free speech.

Both COMMUNISM.org and HITLER.org have been banned by China. You will not be able to access those 2 sites from China. I just checked it using greatfirewallofchina.org

Mahathir fan: I just checked in Beijing -- neither of those websites are blocked.

But even if they were, I do not understand your point.

mahatir_fan doesn't make points, he makes outlandish claims in hopes of...I don't know, getting attention from highly-read blogs like yours. He's been a very persistent little growth on RConversation for as long as I've been reading it, to no avail for him.

So, I've moved to Macau.

I just checked those 2 sites(communism.org and hitler.org) again using the greatfirewallofchina.org and they are still reported by the tool as blocked. It could be that different parts of china has different filters. You can try it using greatfirewallofchina.org if you do not believe me.

I usually do not make any points but throw out facts and let the reader decide. But since you asked, what prompted me to do the test was to uncover the motive for filtering flickr. Quite naturally, one thinks that the government has something that they do not want people to see on flickr that is anti-government. If that hypothesis is correct, then they shouldn't be blocking any websites that promote communism or an apolitical website that has little relevance like hitler.

If those websites are blocked, then it suggest that it isn't anti-government materials that they wish to block, but they wish to block any materials that fans ideological fanaticism.

greatfirewallofchina.org is useless. It often claims a backout where there is none. greatfirewallofchina.org is set up by some amateurs in Holland who even managed to have it funded by the Dutch government.

Why are Chinese protestors abusing Flickr for their political issues? They cannot earn much sympathy from all the others that are punished now to be blind and uncreative.

Blind and mad in Beijing,
Suzie

Suzie,
Interesting comment, but what's your point?