January 7th, 2009


Commie Bastards!

Filed under: Rant, Technology — Will Boyce on June 15th, 2007 @ 21:25

Don’t know why I decided I wanted to know this, but I set about finding out some stuff about China’s “Great Red Firewall” and I came across www.greatfirewallofchina.org so ran a test on blog.willboyce.com, only to find out that it is blocked from within China! What, exactly, is on here that the Chinese Government deem unsuitable for their population, 20% of the planet’s population? It’s a bloody stupid practice if you ask me… Still, wouldn’t mind seeing a screenshot of my site getting censored by the Great Red Firewall..

China block willboyce.com!

Edit: I was just browsing my W3Counter and it claimed I had 3 visitors from Hong Kong and a further 2 from elsewhere in China. I’ve read some reports of www.greatfirewallofchina.org being somewhat unreliable (read: complete bullshit), however http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html appears to be a lot more reliable, reporting that my website is accessible and that sites such as Wikipedia, are not. Sorry for any confusion the first site may’ve caused!


1 Comment »

  1. Hmm, I just tried www.google.cn. SURELY that site should be available ? I’m not sure about this site. Even http://www.wowchina.com is blocked!

    Comment by JonB — June 16th, 2007 @ 11:52

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