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Internet: The Great Firewall of China

By fpp ⋅ 14-March-2007 at 18:40 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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A non-profit group of web designers, film directors and journalists who want to make the Internet censorship system more transparent has put up a web site called the “Great Firewall of China”. On the site you can test if a particular website address is blocked in China and see how the site looks from the perspective of a Chinese user. It works by routing the requested url from…

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China: Stamps with Pork flavor

By fpp ⋅ 12-January-2007 at 5:18 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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To celebrate the Chinese year of the pig beginning 18-February-2007, China has released a set of sweet and sour flavored post stamps. When you scratch the stamp it will release the flavor of this typical and well known Chinese dish. It was reported that when you lick the back of the stamps you can also get a taste of this dish. No information on the number of calories per stamp or if it actually contains pork was available…

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China: Censors open some access to Wikipedia (Access chart)

By fpp ⋅ 16-October-2006 at 17:40 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

After having blocked access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for almost a year completely, China has now started to open up some parts of it.
With the help of bloggers and Wikipedians across China Andrew Lih has created a chart of Wikipedia reachability from within China.
The English language version (en.wp) is now widely accessible while [...]


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