Comments on: At Work Again http://global-gal.com/2007/10/22/at-work-again/ China - From the Outside Looking In Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kunzilla http://global-gal.com/2007/10/22/at-work-again/comment-page-1/#comment-421 kunzilla Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:27:57 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=410#comment-421 Thank you very much. No wonder my friends in China can't view my wordpress page unless using proxy. I have my own list of proxy servers but I rarely use them because I pretty much can access all the sites here. Come to think of it, if a user in China can use a proxy to bypass the censorship or whatever, that means the damn thing (censership) is useless basically. Why even bother?! Maybe another 50 years? Hopefully less? Oh well. Thank you very much. No wonder my friends in China can’t view my wordpress page unless using proxy. I have my own list of proxy servers but I rarely use them because I pretty much can access all the sites here. Come to think of it, if a user in China can use a proxy to bypass the censorship or whatever, that means the damn thing (censership) is useless basically. Why even bother?! Maybe another 50 years? Hopefully less? Oh well.

]]> By: global gal http://global-gal.com/2007/10/22/at-work-again/comment-page-1/#comment-422 global gal Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:16:06 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=410#comment-422 Yes, I do have to use a proxy server. I use TOR, which you can read about at global voices advocacy website (see link on sidebar). There is also another guide to using proxies available from this blog http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071015-citizen-lab-releases-guide-to-circumventing-internet-censors.html The thing about website blocking and Internet censorship in China is that it is not always consistent from day to day or from region to region. For example, I've heard of people accessing blogspot in Shanghai when it is not available in Shandong. Wikipedia is another site that is sometimes available, sometimes not. Over the past year, Wordpress has been unblocked two or three times, and then will mysteriously become unavailable again. I've stopped worrying about it and just use the TOR for any visits to wordpress, blogspot or wikipedia. Yes, I do have to use a proxy server. I use TOR, which you can read about at global voices advocacy website (see link on sidebar). There is also another guide to using proxies available from this blog http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071015-citizen-lab-releases-guide-to-circumventing-internet-censors.html

The thing about website blocking and Internet censorship in China is that it is not always consistent from day to day or from region to region. For example, I’ve heard of people accessing blogspot in Shanghai when it is not available in Shandong. Wikipedia is another site that is sometimes available, sometimes not. Over the past year, WordPress has been unblocked two or three times, and then will mysteriously become unavailable again. I’ve stopped worrying about it and just use the TOR for any visits to wordpress, blogspot or wikipedia.

]]> By: kunzilla http://global-gal.com/2007/10/22/at-work-again/comment-page-1/#comment-423 kunzilla Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:11:27 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=410#comment-423 ah, the pesky work that we all have to deal with. quick question, did you have to use a proxy to access wordpress when you were in china? ah, the pesky work that we all have to deal with.

quick question, did you have to use a proxy to access wordpress when you were in china?

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