media - Google News reports its own 'blockade'


What is a double sensation for a journalist in China is to see whether Google News will report on what some see as a blockade of its site by the Chinese censors. It does, only on page two as the celebration of World Aids day and imposed US duties on shrimps were more important.
But otherwise were all the twenty news reports (including the BBC) easily accessable.
Last night I developed a new theory on what is happening, as I was waiting for a set of early morning phone calls.
The strange thing is that only a few of the IP-addresses of Google News are being blocked, suggesting it might perhaps not be the Google service itself that is the target, but the traffic it generates. The internet filters have caused a damaging slowdown on the internet traffic in general and perhaps by closed some of the generators of potentially sensitive traffic that bottleneck is temporarily 'solved'.
It would explain why I can get so easy access to a few other sites, like my blogging-interface. Just a theory.