Friday, January 23, 2009

Cold, Hard Great Firewall of China


I was surprised to find Wikipedia blocked until I proxied it: Jan. 23 marks an important anniversary in China as seen on their home page, and so it was blocked. Other Wikipedia pages, if I type in the URL directly, are accessible, so hopefully by tomorrow, the block will be lifted.

Sometimes the cold, hard reality of living under communist rule hits you like walking into a glass door: you feel stupid for not foreseeing what seems so obvious in hindsight.

Below is what it looks like to try to trick the computer into loading an elicit page; it simple stops loading.

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