Thursday, March 04, 2004

internet - BBC-site unblocked

The BBC is no longer blocked on the internet in China. That means the end of one of the oldest bockades on the internet. I was just looking a a fabulous new internet tool called ican when I realized this would have been previously impossible without installing a proxy.
Mostly China increases the censorship in the internet ahead of the National People's Congress, but this is an interesting reversal.

Update: And unfortunately not true, as people tell me by email and in the comments. The general site of the BBC was already accessible from 2001; and the news-site (news.bbc.co.uk) is still blocked. Maybe after the NPC :-)

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