Wednesday, March 08, 2006

internet - Nanny blocks three weblogs

Local weblogproviders have removed three outspoken weblogs on orders of the internet censors, says Danwei. Frank Dai provides some screenshots of the initial situation. The initial message sounded like a bit of a protest itself: "Due to some reasons that all of us know, this blog is temporarily closed." That message has now been removed.
Danwei requotes Liu Zhengrong of the State Council who said:
Liu ... also said Chinese people can access the Web freely, except when blocked from "a very few" foreign websites whose contents mostly involve pornography or terrorism.
Says Danwei:
Thanks Nanny! Thanks Liu Zhengrong! I feel so much safer now that the terrorists and pornographers have had their blogs blocked. I think I'll go and look at some pictures of frogs and rabbits being crushed by a woman in high-heeled shoes to celebrate this victory over the terrorist-pornographic forces.
Update I: Reuters has it too, be it half a day later.
Update II: An amazing day: this morning Danwei reported that three weblogs of outspoken journalists were blocked, now Danwei reports they are online again. I had given them a day before we could get access again, but I was too pessimistic.
Update III: Massage Milk has played a practical joke with the censorship discussion, discloses Virtual China.
I like to play pranks...so it's not what you think, or what the foreign press thinks.

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