A year and half ago we discovered that half our blogroll at Sensorymetrics was actually banned in China. Soon after writing about it, we were censored too. Using the terrific tool Great Firewall of China, it was easy to check. Unfortunately, it appears Chinese officials managed to derail it.
Another test ...
This past spring we wrote about how half our blogroll was blocked by the infamous Chinese firewall. We were still getting through at the time. I've noticed a bunch of pings to SM from Chinese networks this weekend- checked the GreatFireWallofChina - sure enough, we're now blocked. How rude is that? ...
SM friend Peter Krug sent us this nifty little site that bounces your url to their server in China to see if you're being censored or blocked. I'm glad to say that SensoryMetrics is still OK - but a big chunk of our favorite blogs are not...
Out of our current 16 sites listed, these ...
So the department of Justice just wrapped up its inaugural conference on Global Internet Freedom... but we're still left with the question - where's the line between good and bad censorship of the internet? A good example of bad censorship is Google.cn trying to block search results for: teen pregnancy, dating, homosexuality, ...
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