roddy Posted September 30, 2004 at 03:42 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 03:42 PM Geocities has been blocked in China as long as I can remember, but I'm currently getting geocities no problem from Beijing. Anyone else? Roddy Quote
Green Pea Posted September 30, 2004 at 03:46 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 03:46 PM Very cool. No problem here. I'm in Guangdong at the moment. Quote
roddy Posted September 30, 2004 at 03:51 PM Author Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 03:51 PM Hmmm, interesting, but not particular significant, I think. Even political dissidents can afford decent webhosting these days - don't think this really opens much up to China besides pictures of cats and pages about high-school bands, but hey, it's all a step in the right direction. I've tried primezero.com, which is geek_frappa's site, hosted by Yahoo - that's still unavailable. Roddy PS If you're listening, geek_frappa, I'd swop ALL of geocities, just for your site Quote
yonglan Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:01 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:01 PM Ahem, what about Tripod? Quote
roddy Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:05 PM Author Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:05 PM The operation timed out when trying to contact gregbosco.tripod.com Bad luck. This is as likely to be a glitch somewhere as anything else. I won't be suprised if we get up tomorrow morning and it's gone again. Roddy PS Actually, i'll be suprised if I get up tomorrow morning full stop, as I'm on holiday. But you know what I mean. Quote
pazu Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:26 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:26 PM I'm now in Hanoi, Vietnam, and I was so surpirsed that I could get into http://groups.yahoo.com/ now! First time in Vietnam... PS: BUt it may because I'm not really in an internet cafe... I'm using my hotel's free internet service. Quote
geek_frappa Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:42 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:42 PM wow!! very interesting. can you see these? http://www.primezero.com/en/ http://chinese.primezero.com/ http://chinese.primezero.com/soleri/ http://chinese.primezero.com/soleri/about.php http://www.yummypig.com/ Quote
roddy Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:44 PM Author Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:44 PM Try reading this Roddy Ps Same for Yummypig.com, sorry. Quote
geek_frappa Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:48 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 04:48 PM Try reading this ha! i meant like in vietnam and Guangdong... (sorry, i should have been more specific) Quote
liuzhou Posted September 30, 2004 at 08:18 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 08:18 PM Geocities also now available from Guangxi. Even more strange is that, despite initiating a massive campaign against pornography on the internet, they have simultaneously unblocked the Playboy site! (Don't ask me how I know that!) Quote
madizi Posted September 30, 2004 at 08:27 PM Report Posted September 30, 2004 at 08:27 PM How you know that? Quote
roddy Posted October 1, 2004 at 01:15 AM Author Report Posted October 1, 2004 at 01:15 AM Playboy has apparently been unblocked for a while. I was wrong on two counts - Geocities is still unblocked, and I did get up this morning. Roddy Quote
chengdude Posted October 3, 2004 at 07:50 AM Report Posted October 3, 2004 at 07:50 AM No luck in Chengdu, but then again I'm behind a university's firewall where we celebrated National Day by shutting off the Internet for 48 hours. Quote
roddy Posted October 3, 2004 at 08:31 AM Author Report Posted October 3, 2004 at 08:31 AM Seems to be off in Beijing again. Guess somebody went on holiday for a couple of days . . . Roddy Quote
liuzhou Posted October 3, 2004 at 09:19 AM Report Posted October 3, 2004 at 09:19 AM Yeah! Lost it down here in Guangxi too. But thanks for the info! I was able to get to a couple of things I wanted while it lasted. Quote
PollyWaffle Posted October 3, 2004 at 09:44 AM Report Posted October 3, 2004 at 09:44 AM au.geocities.com is still blocked though it wasn't 6 months ago... is there a point to blocking this stuff when 'i've heard' most porn is still available, plus i access foreign news sites everyday Quote
liuzhou Posted March 22, 2006 at 05:27 AM Report Posted March 22, 2006 at 05:27 AM Yesterday, I was googling around, clicked on a link, noticed it was a geocities site and was just about to hit the 'back' button, when to my astonishment the site popped up. It is still open here in Guangxi. I'm told it's still unavailable in Beijing. Quote
JackP Posted October 30, 2006 at 07:28 AM Report Posted October 30, 2006 at 07:28 AM Geocities seems to be unblocked (again?) in Shijiazhuang... for now... Quote
md1101 Posted October 30, 2006 at 08:06 AM Report Posted October 30, 2006 at 08:06 AM all this recent unblocking really shows is that china's filtering technology is becoming more sophisticated and as a result no longer need to ban entire domain names but simply the content within that domain that they don't like. so its good and bad news really. we celebrated National Day by shutting off the Internet for 48 hours. i actually like to hear stuff like that because the more blatantly obvious it is to the chinese that they are being 'shielded' from the outside and prevented from discussion then the more the chinese are going to go searching for it. Quote
liuzhou Posted May 26, 2007 at 07:05 AM Report Posted May 26, 2007 at 07:05 AM It''s open again. Quote
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