Saturday, January 09, 2010

Wired being blocked in Beijing?

The Chinese government continues it's censoring of material available on the internet to residents of it's country. One of the recent sites to have been deemed "banned in Beijing" is one of my favorite tech websites, Wired.com. Wired reports, China Blocks Wired.com With ‘Great Firewall’. The irony in all of this is it is western technology that is being bought/used to help China block access to more than just Wired:

Current blacklist members and alumni include YouTube, Facebook, the BBC, Wikipedia, Google and most recently, IMDB, an encyclopedic movie information site. China’s censorship of the net is in constant flux, aided by sets of powerful firewalls marketed to the Communist government by Western technology companies.


Though perhaps Wired spoke too soon since a person writing in the comments claims to currently be in Beijing and able to access Wired. Wishful thinking on the part of Wired that they reached the level of controversy of..IMBD? Maybe :-)

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