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Well then you can imagine what it must be like for Internet savvy surfers in China; a country notorious for censoring the Internet. Touted as having some of the most sophisticated firewalls in the world, greatfirewallofchina.org lets you check if you can pass China’s strict IP monitors. Apparently Next Lust is blocked. Yes, we here are nothing but hordes of anti-socialistic tech journalists with a hidden anti-red agenda.
What about your site? Are you blocked? Sound off!
UPDATE: Some people are reporting on and off blocking with the same tested URLS. It seems China’s IP blockade is not accurate and whatever algorithm they’re using to determine what should be blocked isn’t entirely absolute. However as of this past friday, all LiveJournal sites are blocked. That’s roughly 1.8 million blogs. Although China has reached agreements with Microsoft’s MSN Spaces, other blog hosting companies like Google’s Blogger and Six Apart’s Typepad are still periodically blocked.
The Chinese Government gave no reasons why all LiveJournal blogs were blocked, but one can deduce the highly personal voice found among LiveJournal users didn’t sit too well with the Red Party.