Ah the vicissitudes of a government petrified of information…after a brief revival this past week, blogspot is YET AGAIN blocked in Beijing. This time joined by the popular workaround site anonymouse which has, until now it would seem, been a decent way to access blocked sites. Hopefully this is all temporary and somebody will get the nanny a cocktail and a neck massage.
But for the moment can I just address (again) the purple elephant sitting in the corner: societies that block information and are afraid of alternative viewpoints cannot be considered modern and developed…and no amount of high rise buildings, synchronized hand claps, Audi A6s, or Olympic games will make it so.
Sorry.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Anaïs // Jun 14, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Right, the GFW is good and strong 很好很强大
Then I turn to firefox…
2 Jeremiah // Jun 15, 2008 at 8:30 am
Yeah, I use Firefox as well and I used to have the blogspot proxy workaround. For now, I’m using Hotspot which does a decent job getting around even the toughest system-level blocks.
Thanks for stopping by.
3 stuart // Jun 15, 2008 at 10:56 am
societies that block information and are afraid of alternative viewpoints cannot be considered modern and developed…
Absolutely. I make this point so often when I get lectured about “five thousand years of civilisation”
4 Charles Frith // Jun 16, 2008 at 7:39 am
Might be useful:
http://snipurl.com/2iv4n [quickwired_com]
5 Matt Schiavenza - Censorship // Jun 17, 2008 at 6:52 pm
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