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China Blocks Access to Blogger Blogs Ahead of Olympic Games

blogspot-china-blocked This is just in. China has blocked access to all Blogger blogs ahead of the Olympic games that begin in Beijing three months from now.

We conducted connectivity tests using three different nodes in China and none of them could connect to blogspot blogs.

Test I: Timeout while connecting to a Blogger blog from Shanghai.

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Test II: No response when a blogspot site was pinged from Shanghai, China

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Test III: Blogspot Website could not be accessed from Beijing, China.

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The International Olympic Committee recently asked China to open "Internet" during the duration of 2008 Olympics but with this restriction put on Blogger, it is pretty clear that the 30,000 journalists covering the Olympics event will have a hard time getting to their favorite websites and blogs while they are inside the "Great Firewall of China."

The news that Bloggers blogs are inaccessible in China was twittered by Carsten Ullrich, a researcher in Shanghai and got confirmed by Graham Webster, a journalist in Beijing.

If you plan to be in Beijing for the Olympic games, here’s how to read Blogger Blogs inside China and access other restricted sites.

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Published on May 4, 2008 under Blogging, Internet
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Reader Comments

#1 Gustavo Leig 05.04.08

My Wordpress blog (gusleig.com) is also not pinging. But Im hosted in my own domain…

#2 digglife 05.04.08

In China,we have to submit our sites and personal infomation to Ministry of Infomation Industry of PRC and wait their censor for almost 1 month(or even longer) until we can launch.If there is any uncomfortable content on the site,they will just block the IP and contact us for removing them.

Blogger has been blocked in China for a long long time,not from now.

#3 John Munson 05.04.08

I’m in China now. I was publishing my blog at blogspot.com with no problems until yesterday. now “timed out” Outrageous is what I say. Still repressive after all these years, I guess.

#4 Kevin 05.04.08

Is this only for blogger.com ? how about wordpress and typepad ?

#5 Carsten Ullrich 05.04.08

Blogspot in on and off all the time. It was blocked for months, then unblocked, now blocked again… not sure whether this time it is related to the Olympics.
Thanks for mentioning me in your post. First time I broke some news!

#6 Technology Hacker 05.05.08

Amit,
This is I think due to growing agitations from Tibet against China..Blog is a great source for sharing thoughts for tibetians..but I dont think so this can stop Tibetians.There are many ways to do it…But I agree that i can be stopped substantially..

#7 halo 05.05.08

I think China fear about sex and politic ^_^

#8 Andy Krawiecki 05.05.08

Anybody use “Google Earth” recently???

If not, Fly to Beijing in China and read the “Every Human has Rights” poster!! It’s great!
Probably hacked in by someone and they don’t even know about it. By the time this message gets out, it may be gone, but I took snapshots of it and have the jpegs…

Andy

#9 adam 05.05.08

Communist China is such a disgrace for its long famous history of many thousands of years. So great and beautiful country and people, but so terribly bad and criminal leadership. (If I would have said that in China, I would have gone to prison or been shot)
One day, even China is going to change to better.

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