If you search a term on Bing that is politically sensitive in China, in English the results are legitimate. Search “Tiananmen” and you’ll find out about the army firing on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you also get credible results.
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Well, as PRC security forces do whatever it is they're doing in Xinjiang while the Uighur minority-in-their-own-land and the imported Han majority work hard at killing each other, it appears Beijing has done what they do, and cracked down.
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Michael Anti (安替), is a well-known Chinese blogger who used to work for the New York Times as a researcher and made headlines when his Windows Live blog was deleted by Microsoft for its content, he warns that twitter might have the same blocking as does youtube.com..
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Yesterday Plurk, a micro-messaging service that competes with Twitter, discovered that it is being blocked in China
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With the glare of the Olympic spotlight gone, China has resumed blocking access to the Internet sites of some foreign media, reversing itself on earlier promises to expand press freedom as part of its bid to win the games, human rights groups and press advocates said Wednesday.
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The Firefox add-on, China Channel, offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China. Take an unforgettable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It's open source, free and easy.
read more »iTunes is back after being blocked for offering pro-Tibet secession music. What has changed? Apple has made a change without removing the album. This is a smart accommodation, not unlike Google's method of operating in China without sacrificing its global principles, which this writer has defended in the past.
read more »Some quick practical advice on what to do if your website gets blocked in mainland China, and precautions to take to prevent a block happening.
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In the People's Republic of China? Having trouble viewing Flickr photos? John's got the solution in the form of a nifty little Firefox plugin.
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