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Great Firewall Becomes Greater

Posted by timothy on from the move-along-now dept.

Jay writes "This article on Yahoo! mentions China's new restrictions on websites as of September 1st. Apparently it's more advanced and doesn't censor the entire webpage, just portions. It also forwards requests for search engines, like google, to less effective search engines. They also mention that this might just be temporary during a Communist Party Congress. Anyone have a mirror?" A different AP article spins things slightly differently, emphasizing that Google is apparently no longer blocked in China and mentioning the selective blocking of web content only in passing.

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  1. Re:chinese proxy? by The+Turd+Report · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am sure there is one in here somewhere.

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  2. Blocking part of a webpage by poincaraux · · Score: 3, Informative
    Apparently it's more advanced and doesn't censor the entire webpage, just portions.


    Actually, the Yahoo article says that it blocks portions of websites rather than whole websites. Blocking parts of individual webpages would be a bit tougher :).
  3. Re:chinese proxy? by wsapplegate · · Score: 2, Informative

    No problem, dude : just set your browser with 203.93.218.65, port 80 as proxy. I just tried it : Google isn't blocked, and it returns the same pages as here (I made a search for censorship , hope I won't cause problems to the poor fellows that own that proxy =)

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  4. Re:Encrypted Tunneling SSH and Proxy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can get out on SSH tunnel no problem, but if thousands of people start using it, it becomes pretty blatant that its a proxy, then the government will ban it.

    They go through phases where its really anal, and when its not.

    See www.shanghaiguide.com/forum and have a look at some of the google topics for a better idea.