THE CAFE IS TEMPORARLIY DOWN DUE TO THE REPRESSIVE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND THE "GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA". BASTARDS.
Thursday, 27. September 2007, 23:45:53
A concerned and observent reader notes the following:
If it was really blocked by China's great censorwall how could you write this?
By vivalamuerte, # 28. September 2007, 00:21:48
Bill writes:
I use a couple different proxy programs that are able to update blog sites. The fact is that not only is Opera.com blocked in the PRC but that the school I work and live at now has abysmal DSL service and the connection is non-existent or so slow I have to surrender the desire to work hard on the site (and a couple others I began). Sometimes I am lucky and can add a comment like this, but usually it will not let me. I cannot open necessary sites to download new pictures and research topics. I cannot even open images that are 50 or 100 KB in size. My connection freezes up and times out. A site like this depends on fresh images as well as researched information from places lke Wikipedia (which is also banned in the PRC).The truth is that Opera.com is completely banned in China along with a host of other blog and general net sites and the list grows all the time. But there are ways around that, but there seems no way around my poor connection since I cannot use an outside service on the school grounds. I need a special ID card that monitors my IP address constantly to use a public Internet Cafe and the card is only issued to Chinese Nationals. Some places have temp cards for foreigners, but not near me and there are less and less as the government here cracks down more and more on free speech and zombie movies. Ultimately the problems bloggers face here are not due to the poor connections or repressive Internet Cafe regualtions which are taking overly rather quickly, but to the need of the PRC to censor public opinion and free thought. My site is not political and is lowbrow actually, but individal sites are not blocked, rather entire hosts and blog types are banned in one fell swoop and kept on the other side of the infamous Greatfire Wall of China. Sigh. I may try to shift the theme to MSN My Spaces soon as it is sort of more reliable. Once I shift sites (after I have exhausted all means to continue here)I will announce itsaddress in a future post. Good and logical question.
Thanks. Bill.
WIDGETIZE
vivalamuerte # 28. September 2007, 00:21
Anonymous # 7. October 2007, 10:13
I use a couple proxy serach programs that is able to update blog sites. The fact is that not only is Opera.com blocked in the PRC but that the school I work and live at now has abysmal DSL service and the conenction is non-existent or so slow. Sometimes am lucky and can add a comment like this, but usually it will not let me. I cannot open necessary sites to download new pictures and research topics. The truth is that Opera.com is banned in China along with a host of other blog and general net sites, but there are ways around that, but there seems no way around my poor connection since I cannot use an outside service on the school. Sigh. I may try to shift the theme to MSN My Spaces soon as it is sort of more reliable. But good and logical question. Once I shift sites I will announce it here. Thanks. Bill.
pfelelep # 14. May 2008, 16:32
too bad hey block so many site anyway.
When I was in chengdu last year, they even block french news site! I was really amazed, worried and angry.
..until I realized it wasen't censorship, it was a earthwake that cut a submarine communication line, except chinese website, Nobody could access extra-china website!