Dragonmount.com is blocked in China. I can't imagine what we've done to annoy them lately, but there it is.

 

http://greatfirewallofchina.org/test/

I blame it all on Ben! His grinning annoyed them!

:roll:

Haha, Niamh.

Wow... wonder why they don't like us....

I say it's cause of the pr0n.

And we know who's fault that is. *looks*

 

 

Though it doesn't amaze anyone that we're blocked? I mean, come on, we're a book discussion site! What does the Chinese government have against Robert Jordan?

Stop looking at me... ><

 

If that page of links are also blocked, that's like almost half the intrawebz... lol. Google, Live Journal, My Space, You Tube, Wikipedia, CNN etc...

I blame it all on Ben! His grinning annoyed them!

 

Then I'll grin some more, until they let us through! *grins*

 

Hmm, I wonder what the postal rate for grins is...

It's a good thing my brother, who has yet to read the WoT or go to DM, is over there instead of me! I would die without DM for a year.

Isn't/Wasn't Roka in china? I wonder how he got on...

Stop looking at me... ><

 

If that page of links are also blocked' date=' that's like almost half the intrawebz... lol. Google, Live Journal, My Space, You Tube, Wikipedia, CNN etc...[/quote']

 

Yeah, think about it... International news sites, blogging tools, Wikipedia...These aren't just blocked, they don't exist for the Chinese.

 

Has anyone tried using Chinese Google yet? Look up Tiananmen Square Square on www.google.cn and see the different between that and www.google.com

I got home from China less than a week ago and I was able to access DM there and even post to it.

 

Maybe that's why it's now blocked ;) Or then it really isnt.

well it wasn't me this time... I've never been to China, although I have t... hey maybe it was me *ponders*

There's so much censorship in China, it's infuriating for the average Westerner. I lived there for a yr, and the newspapers were so anti-West, and yet loving to learneth the English at the same time. :roll:

 

My phone was tapped, and I'm glad I didnt have internet in my apt. At the iCafe, it's much harder to filter the emails, but I still had to be careful of my language when I wrote home.

 

Interestingly, when I returned, I couldnt watch MTV for almost 6 months. (Not that I watch it a lot anyway.) But, it's the whole 'showing skin' factor. There's NONE of that on TV in China. (And no Buffy, Star Trek, etc.) But, you know what is on TV? MEXICAN SOAP OPERAS dubbed over in Chinese. :shock: I have no clue, so dont ask.

My website url is blocked too, too bad all those chinese people will miss out on my wedding pics and pics of my dog ;)

 

Shiaine

There are explanations for some of those sites tho.

 

Google, Myspace, Microsoft, Wikipedia etc have special websites that can be accessed from China (they have severe content restrictions tho).

 

For some odd reason people traveling abroad can access restriced sites (So like I went and accessed the NRA website ^_^ from my lappy and could connect but could not from a local machine.

 

I'll test some more when I go back this summer.

My brother is working out in China, has been for a couple of years and the censorship is something he comments on a lot, especially with the internet.

Yeah silly communists... :roll: :lol: