Great Firewall Site
A new site called GreatFirewallofChina.net tries to bring attention to Internet blocking in the PRC by allowing folks to check sites for reachability within China. While there are a number of flaws to their methodology (a single test cannot give the full picture) it will be interesting to see what their results are.
Happy Chinese New Year, all.
February 15th, 2007 21:13
A number of flaws, that is very nicely put, Andrew. I can get to their opening page, but all the rest is not working. Anyway, happy year of the pig too
February 15th, 2007 21:23
[...] Nanny Punishes Naughty Kevin I just read about greatfirewallofchina.net on Andrew Lih’s blog. I clicked on it and was surprised it wasn’t blocked (yet). Then I clicked a few pages under their homepage and Nanny’s automated “Uh-oh, Kevin’s doing a no no” kicked in and it went offline. Typical. Nanny seems to only punish me for a minute for viewing the naughty content. [...]
February 18th, 2007 05:05
[...] I just read about greatfirewallofchina.net on Andrew Lih’s blog. I clicked on it and was surprised it wasn’t blocked (yet). Then I clicked a few pages under their homepage and Nanny’s automated “Uh-oh, Kevin’s doing a no no” kicked in and it went offline. Typical. Nanny seems to only punish me for a minute for viewing the naughty content. [...]
March 15th, 2007 09:11
I think China has blocked GreatFirewallofChina.net. Am I correct ?
Cheers