The title of this blog comes from a Gaelic expression -"putting on the poor mouth"-which means to exaggerate the direness of one's situation in order to gain time or favour from creditors.
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05 March 2007
Great Firewall of China - update
Hmm the Poor Mouth now seems to be blocked. Perhaps my cats are just too subversive...
I tested http://yellowdoggereldemocrat.org/ several times, both with and without the www, and the blocked/available results seemed to be pretty much random. I believe what we are seeing is some technical difficulty interfering with the test, not a true test of whether the sites are blocked in China. My best guess: if you see "available" one or more times, your site is probably available.
I suppose it could be a tecnical issue. It was available earlier on. I will have to push the envelope a little, methinks.. Some Tiananmen footage and a cat defacing a picture of Mao should do it!
Lengthy posts criticising China of Tiananmen Square and its treatment of Falun Gong should do it Beakerkin.
Apart from teh obvious like the above I am not sure what a blogger would do to be banned. In this day and age would the chinese authorities hold it against you for saying that about Mao!
I'm not sure what I've said particularly that would get the Poor Mouth blocked, unless it was a generic block on blogger sites. Hiho, much as I would love to see some sights in China there are other places to go if no visa was forthcoming. I must get my finger out and see some of the great native american sites like Cahokia
You have (had) readers in China? Forgive my ignorance, but how does one know that a site is blocked?
ReplyDeleteOops, never mind. I should have read your earlier post first.
ReplyDelete(Feel free to delete the comments above.)
ReplyDeleteI tested http://yellowdoggereldemocrat.org/ several times, both with and without the www, and the blocked/available results seemed to be pretty much random. I believe what we are seeing is some technical difficulty interfering with the test, not a true test of whether the sites are blocked in China. My best guess: if you see "available" one or more times, your site is probably available.
I suppose it could be a tecnical issue. It was available earlier on. I will have to push the envelope a little, methinks.. Some Tiananmen footage and a cat defacing a picture of Mao should do it!
ReplyDeleteJams, don't be so intelligent, it hurts. The blogger is blocked.
ReplyDeleteIt has been blocked before hasn't it?
ReplyDeleteThis makes no sense as I get hits from China and am anti-Communist.
ReplyDeleteI guess it isn't blatant enough.
Lengthy posts criticising China of Tiananmen Square and its treatment of Falun Gong should do it Beakerkin.
ReplyDeleteApart from teh obvious like the above I am not sure what a blogger would do to be banned. In this day and age would the chinese authorities hold it against you for saying that about Mao!
You have to think of VISAs in the long term. If you wanna go one day, keep stum.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what I've said particularly that would get the Poor Mouth blocked, unless it was a generic block on blogger sites. Hiho, much as I would love to see some sights in China there are other places to go if no visa was forthcoming. I must get my finger out and see some of the great native american sites like Cahokia
ReplyDeleteIt was that picture of Oscar Wilde you posted after you tested.
ReplyDeleteFar I know it could be just that Bob!
ReplyDeleteI'm not blocked. Time to write about Tibet...
ReplyDeleteThe site you linked to links to this, Jams, which seems a worthy endeavor --
http://www.adoptablog.org
Hmm but if the Russians bring down the Iron (firewall) curtain, then you're buggered, Peteris!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about the adoptablog. It does look like a good way to help people have their voices heard