Blogger blocked in China now?

[mandarinstudent]

About a month and a half ago I set up a blogger.com account and started a blog. Beginning last week or so, I couldn't view my blog. I could log in to edit it, but I couldn't view my webpage. To test to see if it was just mine, I tried to view other blogspot.com websites and couldn't view them either. Is this happening just in Changchun or is blogger.com blocked all over China now?

[FSO]

Blogger has been off for a week or two here in Beijing.

[md1101]

i thought it has always been blocked. i couldn't access it last year or mid year this year.

[stephanhodges]

I am in Changchu, at Jilin University. I can see your blog.

Correction, I see your "whocares" blog. You didn't list your blogger site URL, so can't check that directly.

I would guess it's blocking (sometimes) because of content (specific words). Just a guess, but words like S .. L .. U .. T or G ^^ A ^^ N ^^ G ^^ B ^^ A ^^ N ^^ G might trigger their pornography filters. They are just word based filters, probably.

Hopefully, I've not put words that would trigger anything here. I'm just repeating a couple of words I see on the site just now... (the whocares site)

[mandarinstudent]

Yeah, I had to move my whole blog to another site on msn since my blogger site was blocked. I'm sure that it isn't due to the words I used because I cannot view ANY blogger.com or blogspot sites now.

[Lu]

AFAIK: Blogspot has been blocked for... well, a very long time. It became unblocked for a short time lately (I suppose that was when you started your blog), but now it's blocked again. It doesn't have to do with anything you put on your blog, the entire Blogspot is blocked. It seems you can access it via a proxy, but as I don't know the first thing about those things I'll leave the explanation of the details to others.

[cjbaker]

The blospot.com domain appears to be blocked, it happened a couple weeks ago as far as I could tell, but blogger.com is not. I host my Blogger blog on my own domain, and even though it retrieves files from blogger.com, it can be viewed from China.