A fast Flickr Fixr to flip off the Firewall

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 6:05 a.m. by Chris Amico in News

Thanks Hamed!There's a sweet little plugin making the rounds this week that will get you Flickring like new. John at Sinosplice tipped off Ryan, who stuck it up on his site and Lost Laowai. Now I give it to you. Isn't the blogosphere wonderful?

Oh, and Net Nanny, my earlier sentiment still applies.

On a side note, I was talking to Alex, Rick and Kerrilee over a beer last night, and we were trying to figure out just when the block came down.

If memory serves correctly (no guarantee of such things) we reasoned that it was around 11 a.m. local time last Friday, since two of us were uploading photos right about then. By our reasoning—and this is only the supposition of idle minds and alcohol—the GFW's work flow might involve a meeting in the morning, word passed to censors and ISPs, then the block coming down shortly thereafter. We're pretty certain it started with the Xiamen protests. Can anybody corroborate any of this?

Comments:

jun 14, 2007 at 5:13 a.m. // Pandapassport said:

Yahoo released a statement saying the block came down due to pictures of Ti@ananmen being posted on flickr.

But that doesn't make sense.

If you go to youtube and search for ti@ananmen, you can watch a ton of videos, none of which seem to be blocked. But they have blocked a bunch of the Xiamen videos.

If it was Tiananmen photos, they'd have blocked youtube as well.

jun 14, 2007 at 6:16 a.m. // Chris said:

I'm curious about that, too. Blaming TAM2 almost sounds like a cop-out. Compare it with the Global Voices story. Seems a difference between reporting from inside China and outside of China.

Though, to be fair, I've had YouTube reset when I search TAM2, often after it loads. The page will suddenly reload and reset before I can choose a video.

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