Yip,, Danwei has been blocked for me the last 3 days too now. Also I can't get on to TheBeijinger for 2 days,, a site where they already "convinced" the admin to make the forum virtually impossible to use last week. At least Chinasmack still works,,, for now.
I think someone is mistaking Lincoln's famous quote
"You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." for Dubyas "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." (said as a joke).
if you can read Chinese, this is some good stuff.
Teaches you how to get through the GFW.
www.hecaitou.net/?p=5901#comments
or, read the comments posted on there.
Facebook, Twitter not working and Danwei still blocked.
Dear Mr. Censor,
Everybody knows there's rioting in Urumqi and frankly speaking most of us really don't care. We just want to get onto Facebook and write pithy comments and look at our friends' crap photos.
You really should concentrate your considerable resources on stopping all the spam coming into my inbox. If you would like, and provide a forwarding email address, I can send you lots of ads for generic viagra, breast enhancement surgery as well as introduce you to the wife of some Nigerian general who wants to spot you 5 million bucks.
With a bigger dick for yourself and a nice rack for your missus plus some spare kuai to splurge maybe you might find something better to do than randomly blocking off harmless websites.
With best wishes to you and Mrs. Censor,
Piers
So that's it then. I was wondering when Facebook was finally going to go down!
Internet censorship was kind of exciting when I first moved to China... not anymore. It's so ridiculous that it's laughable. Especially considering I can still read so much information about Xinjiang on foreign news websites - the New York Times, news in London and Australia... sheesh.
You can get into facebook by www.sneakme.net. But, you cannot comment on anything or write on your profile page.
message me on msn. zimlegend@msn.com and i will send you free software that gives you access to all blocked sites
Time to awaken an old thread. I haven't been able to access IMDB for 2 days now. Does anyone know if it's been harmonized and if so, why? Who wrote a good review for "Letters from Iwo Jima"??
no problem accessing with my VPN. Nothing earth shattering there.
Able to access IMDB as of this posting Dan.
I still can't. Chinasmack is accessible again though. Everything else seems normal, just imdb out of my reach. I talked to some guy on another forum. He told me imdb.com had been blocked in his province for two years. Can that be right? I guess if they could cut off the entire province of Xinjiang from all foreign based sites, then having some sites permanently blocked in certain provinces but allowing them in others doesn't seem too far fetched. Dear President Hu, would you mind opening up for Youtube in Yunnan? We promise we won't watch unsuitable and/or yellow content.
