More tailor made internet censorship

The forces that try to limit the freedom on the internet have recently introduced a few technological innovations that are pretty amazing. Sohu admitted that now it could allow a person to put up his of her comments - says about the pope - and while the poster could read the comment, nobody else could.

This morning I had another strange experience that might be worth sharing with you, since we seem to be exploring unchartered waters again. I was posting a pretty harmless entry on China's emerging social society when suddenly my blogger.com interface went black. Now, the service has been lagging more often, so I did not suspect anything new here. Until I sat at another computer, and suddenly I got access to blogger.com again, even without using any proxies. I tried to post my entry on the second computer, and the screen went black again.

Isaac Mao reported a few days ago that his website was blocked. Some of the features he and others described did not concur with my understanding of how the internet filters work, but now it seems that the toy department of the internet censor has new goodies in place. Of course that cannot stop me of Isaac from posting, but it is interesting to find out how the new systems exactly work.