14 March, 2006

great firewall weirdness

AsiaPundit is noticing much oddness with China’s Great Firewall right now. Google in
Shanghai but remains accessible in Beijing and Xiamen.

Even stranger, unproxied access is currently possible for two strictly forbidden FLG sites (http://www.ninecommentaries.com/ and http://english.epochtimes.com).
Are any other China users experincing either problems with Google sites or finding other weirdness, such as blocks being mysteriosuly lifted or imposed?

(Update: Unabrewer says the two FLG sites and the BBC are available in Haining.)

(Upperdate: GZ Expat says yes to Google but no to the FLG in Guangzhou. And Fons has noted that he had been seeing a change in the way blocks are implemented - with access being denied at the municipal Shanghai level rather than nationally.)

Wnaked14(Uppestdate: AsiaPundit is more puzzled by the accesibility of the FLG sites than the inaccessibility of Google in Shanghai. He can’t think of any reason for the former. The crackdown is still policy.

However perhaps the Google outage is due to an excessively large number of people using the search engine today to find nude Chinese .)

by @ 3:51 pm. Filed under China, Asia, East Asia, Northeast Asia, Web/Tech

3 Responses to “great firewall weirdness”

  1. Says:

    Google.com Down in Shanghai

    Its one of these days. Gmail.. no access, Google.com no access. Google.cn yes, thats soo available I start thinking its almost intentional. Has Shanghai kicked the international version of the big G out?
    F…

  2. Will Says:

    The worst is always an uppity date.

  3. MM Says:

    Definitely no access to google.com in Shanghai since this morning! Was the same at work and at home.

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