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Online do-it-yourself encyclopedia Wikipedia, every lazy blogger's best friend, will not load in Shanghai without the aid of a proxy server. The site worked yesterday. Most assume the free information source has been blocked by the Chinese government. We can't imagine why. Shanghaiist hopes this is just a temporary glitch, but then we just read this and now wonder if we should care.
So what website is next on China's block list? We doubt this would happen, but they must be tempted to pull the plug on Google Maps. No one likes a website that doesn't adhere to the one-China policy.
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The same here in Beijing. It worked a couple of days ago. But has wikipedia been blocked and unblocked on and off for a while...
So does anybody have the proxy for accessing wikipedia from Shanghai then?
Thanks, Mike
Try http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
Try http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
it's a bit slow though
you can use www.answers.com it pulls info from wikipedia as well as other sources
Cunts. There is no other word for them (apologies to anyone who can't cope with that word out there, I've discovered we Londoners are a bit more free and easy with that word than many).
I've got to ask myself what happens next? What am I going to link too? Where's my first point of call for information on just about everything?
And Shanghaiist, are you safe? You might be small, but this is a site for free and open discussion, and that is the one thing that the powers that be can't deal with.
Re my comment above:
"apologies to anyone who can't cope with that word out there, I've discovered we Londoners are a bit more free and easy with that word than many"
Sorry for my poor writing skills, just downed a rather large Belvdere and tonic, and watched one and a half episodes of The OC, which I have discovered is a combination good enough to send me into a fit of semi-literate ranting...
Chinese censors are certainly welcome to revise Wikipedia entries to levels of accuracy and objectivity more suitable to Chinese readers.
Why don't they try that instead?
Snicker snicker...
Oh boy here in India we don't have such problem;' c'mon Wikipedia is not that bad and it is a very good source of info.
So, how long will this Chinese censorship racket last? Are there people-level plans to protest? With governments everywhere blocking half the internet, and Google and Yahoo and Microsoft helping them do it, in 10 years, will anywhere outside of Europe and the US have uncensored 'net? And will people care, at all?
Well, there's always Tor, I2P, etc. for free (as in speech) information, should anyone care to host a Wikipedia mirror on an eepsite, hidden service, etc.