There’s a possibility that Technorati may have hit the block lists for China. Adam Hertz posted an alert today. We’ve seen something similar with BoingBoing back on March 1st. Hope to learn more soon.
[tags]Technorati, China, Censorship[/tags]
Access to Technorati from China
Its true, no Technorati in China (at least for the moment).
Thank goodness for proxies!
That’s a shame. Thanks for the update. I used to be invloved in a project called Peekabooty that set up a proxy system. I wonder if it’s still online. There was also this earlier posting http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2006/02/16/scaling-the-firewall-of-digital-censorship/
Don’t know the status of that one but, I’ll dig.
Sites go on and off in China like lights. Technorati is down now but it could be back up in a few minutes or a few days. Until more time has passed, it is impossible to say from how high up in the government chain the shutdown came. Was it an overzealous bureaucrat on the bottom or a strong signal to Technorati to “clean up” its China act? At this point, I’m betting on the former.
Overzealous indeed. It’s a shame that this sort of thing still persists in this day and age. I’m going to compile a list of proxy software / sites and post it this weekend. Thanks for the comment.