internet - Blog services turn to self censorship

The mainland-based blog hosts and aggregator Living in China have decided to turn to selfcensorship rather than wait for governmental wrath
Ongoing problems with the previously shuttered services of blogbus.com, blogcn and blogdriver are according to fellow blogger and founder of blogbus.com Isaac Mao done by the services themselves. They got ten days ago into problems as some bloggers published a letter from the Beijing doctor Jiang to the National People's Congress and other authorities.
Just like the chatrooms the weblog services are now installing systems to introduce a key-word based system of self-censorship. Technically it would be rather easy to f*ck that system, but it pressures many users into compliance.
More surprising is a move of Living in China that decided to remove an entry on the wounding of Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian, based on the assumption they were hit by a block.
None of the other weblogs or media sites who did the same got those problems and because of the way blocks work the very short period of technical problems only suggest that internet traffic was disturbed by a higher activity of the internet filters, that would slow down international traffic in general. Official blocks mostly start at the first working day of the month and stay in place for a longer period of time. When this kind of wrong assumptions already trigger off unjustified self-censorship, then it is time to read Kafka again.