Surprise Surprise - TechnoBeta Is Blocked in China!
Published by Sunny on March 30th, 2007 in Internet, TechnoBeta StatusCensorship has its limits, and this time China has crossed it.
Today, I came across this post at Weblog Tools Collection that led me to a site which can tell you whether your website is censored in China or not. The site, Great Firewall of China, lets you make a test with the URL you want to find out about. The website then runs a check on the site from its server located in China, and returns the result to the user.
I was a bit shocked to see that TechnoBeta has been blocked. However, the site has a little disclaimer that states that some websites might not actually be blocked, but appear to be blocked due to technical reasons.
Do take a look at the site, and tell me about your URL status as well as what you think about censorship on the internet.
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March 30th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Well, Well Well. Seems like http://lifeofneelakantan.wordpress.com/ is blocked as well. Of course quite possible that all wordpress hosted blogs have been blocked or its a technical problem.
March 30th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Xubz.com is Blocked? Wierd.. I Suppose Chinese Gov. ‘Add’ sites instead of blocking them.. If you know what I mean.
Hope India doesn’t retort to the same.. That’ll be Hell.. Stupid Moral Police..
March 30th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Umm Sunny, just tested you site http://www.technobeta.com/ again twice. It was available both times.
Sadly http://lifeofneelakantan.wordpress.com/ reported blocked thrice :-((
March 30th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Oh! Weird, I still get the same message - “Your URL is Blocked!”
March 30th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Surprise Surprise !
Made a check for http://greatfirewallofchina.org too.
Guess what Test Result it gave me !
March 30th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
No prizes for guessing what came for that test!
March 30th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
LOL. greatfirewallofchina got firewalled.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:37 pm
LOL !
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ROFL !!
April 1st, 2007 at 12:04 am
That’s the problem with socialist economy..
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Yipeee… I’m not blocked.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:50 am
well china ain’t my target audience..