Friday, January 30, 2004

'Blogspot' blockade again firmly in place

The blockade of the access to the so-called 'blogspot' domains at the internet seems to be again firmly in place. During the past holidays in some places like Beijing, Liaoning and Tianjin access was possible, while other places reported that they could not access the weblogs that belong tot the Google-company Blogger.com. (See also earlier entries).
Two theories emerged. The first suggested a change in policy that was not yet implemented all over China, because of the holidays. The second, suggested by former Harvard researchers Ben Edelman was that because of the changing url's not everywhere the blockade was kept up-to-date, also because of the holidays.
Latest information suggests that the second theory is going to win and the blockade will remain in place, although the logic for the blockade is lacking, now other weblog-providers have no problem in getting business from China-based internet users.

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