gato Posted October 25, 2007 at 03:16 PM Report Posted October 25, 2007 at 03:16 PM I hardly think google would let one of it's flagship products get blocked without making a fuss over it. So I expect Google to make changes and get youtube - in some form - back into china. Actually Google has been much less accommodating to the Chinese government than Yahoo and Microsoft have been. Yahoo is currently being sued in the U.S. in the for giving emails of several Chinese dissidents who were using yahoo accounts over to the Chinese governments, leading to their conviction and imprisonment. See http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/03/72972 'Yahoo Betrayed My Husband' Yahoo's China subsidiary was also the only non-local internet company that was invited to a government-sponsored retreat recently. See http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202401567&pgno=1&queryText= Chinese Internet Censorship Machine Revealed InformationWeek October 11, 2007 03:52 PM Quote
muyongshi Posted October 31, 2007 at 10:43 AM Report Posted October 31, 2007 at 10:43 AM ummm....I think it's working again...anyone care to confirm??? Quote
roddy Posted October 31, 2007 at 10:55 AM Report Posted October 31, 2007 at 10:55 AM Yep, Youtube's back and productivity has just dropped here in Dalian. Quote
imron Posted October 31, 2007 at 11:21 AM Report Posted October 31, 2007 at 11:21 AM Working here in BJ too. Quote
johnd Posted November 1, 2007 at 03:44 AM Report Posted November 1, 2007 at 03:44 AM Working in the south too. I was just thinking of returning to apologise for my earlier comment: "I'm guessing it will come back next week". I should have said a fortnight. Quote
Loriquero Posted November 1, 2007 at 04:42 AM Report Posted November 1, 2007 at 04:42 AM reporting succesful comeback Quote
NickyR Posted November 5, 2007 at 05:45 AM Report Posted November 5, 2007 at 05:45 AM Is anyone struggling with facebook at the moment? It seems to be coming in fits and starts with long periods of absence in the middle. Can't work out if it is my computer or not. But this is what happened to wiki!! Quote
muyongshi Posted November 5, 2007 at 05:54 AM Report Posted November 5, 2007 at 05:54 AM No I haven't had any problems just the very occasional connection reset and it working within a second and only one refresh Quote
Loriquero Posted November 5, 2007 at 07:08 AM Report Posted November 5, 2007 at 07:08 AM it happened to me until last week, right now FB is working pretty fine again Quote
help4theworld Posted November 5, 2007 at 11:51 AM Report Posted November 5, 2007 at 11:51 AM Youtube is back and works faster than before, plus you can see ALL the pages. I'm beginning to doubt that it was "blocked" in the first place on purpose. If it was a matter of censorship it would have stayed closed for much longer. I beleive it's been only some sort of server crash, those things happen all the time. Also, consider what kind of bad reputation China would have gotten if they really blocked youtube.. the most important site on the internet.. 7 months away from the Olympics. Quote
imron Posted November 5, 2007 at 04:51 PM Report Posted November 5, 2007 at 04:51 PM If it was a matter of censorship it would have stayed closed for much longer. I beleive it's been only some sort of server crash, those things happen all the time.A server crash that uncrashed the minute you started using a proxy, and recrashed the moment you went back to a normal connection? Not very likely. Although we can only speculate as to why it was blocked, and why it was subsequently unblocked, the one thing we can be sure about, was that it was blocked.the most important site on the internet.More important than the forums? Surely not Quote
liuzhou Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:06 AM Report Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:06 AM Blogspot seems to be unblocked at the moment. Quote
gougou Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:09 AM Report Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:09 AM I was just gonna post the same thing. Temporarily unproxied the site to change a proxy in gladder (why are they all so irreliable?), and - surprise - it worked without proxy as well. Quote
roddy Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:23 AM Report Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:23 AM why are they all so irreliable? Here's why Idealistic webmaster sets up proxy to help people beat censorship. Everyone uses it to look at porn. Idealistic webmaster gets shut down by webhost or hammered with bandwidth bills. Quote
gougou Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:48 AM Report Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:48 AM But they're all back after an hour or so. Must be idealism paired with an indestructible belief in the goodness of people... Quote
help4theworld Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:55 AM Report Posted November 8, 2007 at 06:55 AM Ok that was SO clever. Someone removed my last post ONLY because I said vblogs like youtube and others are far more used and needed that text forums... I beleive it's the same one who was lashing out china's censorship.. And he remove my post ONLY because of that? How hypocritical. Anyways, I'm outta here. Quote
muyongshi Posted November 8, 2007 at 07:13 AM Report Posted November 8, 2007 at 07:13 AM ....or maybe it's just plain stupidity.... So anyway...bets on how long blogspot is accessible for?? Quote
gougou Posted November 15, 2007 at 05:56 AM Report Posted November 15, 2007 at 05:56 AM bets on how long blogspot is accessible for?Hope you got somebody to bet against you, because I haven't been able to access it for the last few days. Quote
muyongshi Posted November 15, 2007 at 06:03 AM Report Posted November 15, 2007 at 06:03 AM Nope nobody took me up on it.... Quote
liuzhou Posted January 10, 2008 at 01:42 PM Report Posted January 10, 2008 at 01:42 PM Facebook has been out all day. Works fine through proxy. Hmmm. Quote
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