Interesting. My blog is blocked. I’m kind of flattered that they went into all this fuss to block me.

On the other hand libertarec.blogspot.com is allowed.

     by Sunshine on March 14, 2007 at 7:22 am

Michael M., did you ever make any statements that may be construed as anti-China? Think, think!

     by Anonymous on March 14, 2007 at 7:27 am

I wonder what sort of web-site would be considered ‘impure’ by the Chinese, sites with pornographic content, or sites with inflammatory remarks against the People’s Republic of China / socialism etc? Come to think of it, regulation of the internet in principle, doesn’t sound to be a bad idea since it can help to clamp down cyber crimes, random pornography etc., but if the intention of cyber-policing is to restrict people’s access to knowledge and information, then it’s objectionable indeed! In that case it will seek to undo a flattening world (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat), something that has undoubtedly brought much propsperity to this Asian dragon.

     by Anonymous on March 14, 2007 at 7:36 am

Well, they definitely censor hot-topic items like Taiwan, the Tiananmen Square massacre and Tibet. That’s all impure. But I’m pretty sure that most blocking is done automatically and, by the look of things, sloppily.

But I have no idea what got this site blacklisted. There is this comment by Dark Avenger, where he talks about the Chinese communists taking his grandfather’s fortune. Perhaps that set off the filter.

But what kind of country would deprive their citizens of Natalija Verboten?? (Don’t answer that)

     by Michael M. on March 14, 2007 at 7:58 am

www.had.si is allowed

     by had on March 14, 2007 at 8:33 am

It seems that I’m within the Party line as well But I’m sure they knew that already

     by pengovsky on March 14, 2007 at 8:51 am

I am of course blocked. Serves me right, for I once complained on environmental issues relevant for our part of the world. (I wouldn’t want to be within any communist party line anyway )

     by alcessa on March 14, 2007 at 9:29 am

Can’t beleive, they blocked la Verboten and passed Sleeping With the Enemy (read Pengovsky).

     by Anonymous on March 14, 2007 at 9:47 am

britneyspears.com is available which leads me to believe that those 30-40,000 people are not doing a very good job.

     by pirano on March 14, 2007 at 9:51 am

I’m allowed
Interesting, that blog.siol.net was available yesterday and is currently blocked. Wordpress is also blocked, this all would explain Sunshine and Alcessa, as they probably block all sub-domains aswell. As blogger.de is blocked aswell, Novala is unreachable in China. Blogspot.com is allowed, but probably it’s only a question of time untill they change that. I think, if they block, they block the complete top level domain, not just particular blogs.

     by Dietmar on March 14, 2007 at 10:17 am

btw, Carniola is currently available.

     by Dietmar on March 14, 2007 at 10:21 am

It clearly says that version 1.0 of that Netherland’s server has bug in which non-accessible (ie. timeouted) sites are marked as blocked. So …

     by historix on March 14, 2007 at 10:31 am

Some bug or badly written SW I guess. My site (photos mostly) was blocked at first, but allowed at second attempt after 30 sec.

     by Matej on March 14, 2007 at 10:48 am

I can’t understand why they’ve blocked Natalija and alowed Turbo Angels

     by pengovsky on March 14, 2007 at 11:59 am

My blog is available

     by Mare on March 14, 2007 at 2:33 pm

No wonder that Natalija is not allowed … with such a surname

Honestly I don’t trust this page very much … it’s funny though

     by Christian on March 14, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Seems my site and my music appear to be no threat to the world’s biggest economic boomer (a slight socialist contradiction, wouldn’t you say?). If anything, they might copy my music, press it and sell it illegally. Should I block them for that?

     by ARF on March 14, 2007 at 5:34 pm

@ARF: Or you might include some anti-piracy threats in Chinese. Like: “May you suffocate on stale goat’s milk if you sell my music illegally, you spit of a monkey’s breast!”

That should get their attention

     by pengovsky on March 14, 2007 at 5:56 pm

XYZone is blocked too, their loss really. They most probably have some sort of filter rather then old sensor desk that reads and decides and it probably puts bloggers as “high risk” due to the frequency of posts and free speech umbrella it tends to be for non professional writers and “journalists”. Anyone know more about web filters?
perhaps they have it against wordpress blogs, anyone got one that has been allowed?

     by Jayman on March 14, 2007 at 8:33 pm

YES! I am blocked! No idea why I am blocked exactly, but I’d be seriously offended if I weren’t.

     by lemuel on March 14, 2007 at 9:25 pm

My site is OK, but the formatting is completely lost. Still maybe the Taoist title fooled them.

     by varske on March 14, 2007 at 10:03 pm

I must be a good communist, and didn’t even know it. More likely they know I am planning a trip to their country in a few days (I had to apply for a visa, so they know I’m coming) and they want me to feel welcome and spend lots of money in their country. And then blog about what a wonderful experience I had…if I don’t say all sugary-goody goody things, I’m sure I’ll get blocked then. My pictures however on my blog don’t come up. Lord knows that I have posted some seriously impure pics - like vegetarian sushi, Japanese macaques, and preschool crafts.

     by nataliegoestojapan on March 14, 2007 at 10:21 pm

OK, now I feel deeply insulted: how does China dare to allow my blog?… This tells me how low I have fallen. In the next months, I’ll try to do everything to get blocked. I think I deserve it, damn it!!

     by luka on March 15, 2007 at 1:41 am