Is BlogSpot Back?
This might be a fluke, but maybe not. I think somebody just turned BlogSpot back on.
It didn’t work an hour ago, when I tried to read Granite Studio and came up empty, as I have for more than a week. But I was on Yellow Wings just now, where Mersault was venting his frustrations with the blocked internet, when I realized that no proxy was running. Tor was off. I didn’t go through PK Blogs. Nothing.
According to Great Firewall of China—itself blocked—that shouldn’t happen. Everything is still blocked, the test site says.
And yet, Granite Studio loaded like it should. So did my old site. LiveJournal and free Wordpress blogs still appear blacklisted, but BlogSpot is loading.
What happened?
The timing is ironic: I was just writing a post here about China’s censorship, and why it needs to stop. Maybe someone got my telepathic message.
Super quick update: It looks like it’s not just Dalian. Reports from Beijing and Guangzhou say BlogSpot is working there, too.
March 29th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Is BlogSpot Back?…
This could just be a fluke of late-night blogging, but I think BlogSpot is back online. Can’t be sure, though. Maybe my ISP is being nice for a change….
March 29th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Hey Amico, how much u bet it’ll be back to blockspot before April 1?
March 29th, 2007 at 1:55 am
No way to know. I think you’d have better odds with slot machines than trying to predict which way the net nanny will wobble next. I’m just glad to be free of the whole mess, at least on my own site.
March 29th, 2007 at 7:40 am
BlogSpot is working here in Shanghai,too
March 30th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
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