[FRIAM] Are the Chinese blocking your web site?

[Justin Lyon]

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Tom,

Let me know if you get over near London and we can talk over a spot of tea!

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Safe travels.

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Justin Lyon
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Tom Johnson wrote:
> Many of you run web sites of various types and for varying purposes. 
> Can it/they be read by our friends in China?  Check it out.
> (FYI, mine is sometimes blocked, not in China but in parts of the
> Mideast.  It is www.analyticjournalism.com
> <http://www.analyticjournalism.com>  and the "a-n-a-l" of "analytic"
> trips certain wires of censorship.)
> 
> That said, I will be in Cairo, Amman and Dubai in the coming three
> weeks.  Any FRIAM-ers in those parts who would like to meet for a spot
> of tea?
> 
> -tom johnson
> 
> 
> 
> Posted by Monique Van Dusseldorp
> <http://www.poynter.org/profile/profile.asp?user=186406> 3:35:42 PM
> Great Firewall of China: Useful, or Not?
> firewall <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/>
> greatfirewallofchina.org <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/>
> According to "Great Firewall of China," Poynter Online is coming through
> just fine in the People's Republic.
> 
> Did you ever wonder whether your site can be enjoyed from China? In the
> People's Republic, censorship decisions can change day by day. The Great
> Firewall of China <http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/> is a new site
> that helps you determine whether a site is blocked by Chinese government
> online censorship.
> 
> Enter any site's URL to see in real time whether it is censored in
> China. The site's Dutch organizers -- a documentary maker with a Chinese
> background, and a media artist who organized some financial support from
> a few cultural funds -- route your URL request through to the server in
> China, and share the results back to you. So not only will you learn
> whether your site is available; you'll also get to see it as the Chinese
> do. (Editor's note: The "view the site in China" feature was not working
> when I tested it just now.)
> 
> Wired reports
> <http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72872-0.html?tw=wn_index_3> that
> all 1.8 million LiveJournal sites are still blocked, and that Wikipedia
> remains unavailable.
> 
> Tidbits contributor Fons Tuinstra , who is based in China, adds these
> caveats for using the site: "For Chinese online veterans, the firewall
> is not a problem, since there are dozens of easy-to-use tools to get
> around it. What I'm missing at a site like this is an overview of those
> tools, so newcomers can access them more easily.
> 
> "Another problem with this site is that it creates the illusion of a
> centralized organized censorship. In fact, much Chinese censorship is
> locally organized. When the rumor of a new IP-block goes around, people
> here start checking how the situation is in different regions of China.
> That pattern is not as straightforward as this site suggests."
> 
> 
> 
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> ==========================================
> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com>
> 505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
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> <mailto:tom at jtjohnson.us>
> 
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
>                                                    -- Buckminster Fuller
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