A little more open
Interesting - I just clicked a link in Bloglines to open an article in a new window… then found that the page was hosted on Blogspot. And it opened!
Blogspot has been inaccessible from China since I arrived…. I’ve tested a few sites now, and they are all loading normally. My own blogs are also loading normally; even though I’ve been able to access them over the last few days, each page has taken over a minute to load.
Seems like the Great Firewall is becoming more open - for now, at least.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
If it makes you feel better, I read on Arstechnica that Baidu has been sued twice for linking to copyrighted music again. The laws are very much mutable in China. Property laws are even more contentious than freedom of speach or press or whatever.
The Economist had an article on that recently and of course your very own British Olympic team passed some sort of vote the other day saying atheletes could make political statements while in China or something. There was a fullpage ad in the Economist critizing China and the Olympics in which the article about land rights and politicizing the Olympics appreared. Obama was on the cover the newest one is about Castro/Cuba.
How’s the BBC access? That was one of your big buggaboos before. All the Canadian news sites seemed accessible, maybe you’ll have to rely on the colonies.