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China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout
dcm writes "As U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson prepares to introduce a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission to censure the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) government for increasing 'repression of its people using the Internet, democratic dialogue, religious expression,' the regime continues to block discourse.On Friday, China began blocking access to Typepad, a paid weblog hosting service in San Mateo, California. The communist regime previously blocked access to BlogSpot, Blogger's free hosting site. Yan Sham-Shackleton filed a report on the Glutter weblog, mentioning China is '...now using blocking software to stop information from leaking into the county via personal sites, an increasingly vibrant China Internet community, and a place where users are slipping in banned information. Some sites in the blogging community are turning black in protest of this event while others are reporting the incident.'"
Hello,
I am Kim Yee Ho Foo Yun Duck and I live in China. Recently our interweb be blocked by communist party. We don't like communist party but can't have others won't let us vote other. Today we find that China now block sites like blogs.
Please tell your honorable President Bush to liberate us! Tell honorable President Bush we have oil if he need convincing!
Communist party must be stopped at all cos.1!~~
(0fv... . . #@(*!
NO CARRIER
'At least we're better then China' isn't really something to be overly proud of.
It's akin to a murderer claiming at least he didn't kill more people.
I think this is more like the government blockading the door to your bathroom... of course, there's nothing stopping you from relieving yourself on the front lawn. ;)
A: The short answer is "Gay Movable Type Blogger." This does not quite paint the full picture, however.
A GMTB uses a Mac. A GMTB is excited about "wireless hot spots" and "cafes." The prototypical GMTB can be found at a Starbucks with a 15" PowerBook. He will be wearing a black turtleneck and will go on at length about the wonder years where web designers were paid like programmers.
The GMTB will blog about you. Do not be alarmed. In order to make sense of their fast moving and confusing world, GMTBers need to write at length about even the most trivial encounter. They will likely Google you and turn even the most minor conversation into an exploratory experience. Every experience is like that of the newborn boy who finds touching himself over and over to be a pleasurable experience.
Do not make the GMTB angry. The GMTB has natural defenses known as "Google juice." With the application of this "Google juice," the GMTB will sour any future searches on your name. While there is no physical harm to be done, they can make any attempt at finding relevant and useful information about you a linkfest of armchair philosophy, ill-formed opinions, and broad and insanely overblown reactions to everyday occurrences.
Should you find yourself confronted by a GMTB and wish to escape, one need only mention that their "CSS" is broken. The GMTB invariably considers the CSS "correctness" and "portability" to be a craft, and the output thereof to be an "art." By pointing out that the page renders poorly on the most esoteric browser you can imagine, you will be assured a quick and uneventful escape.
They've implimented a system to block free exchange of ideas about religion, politics and current issues through blogs and the internet...
But even they can't stop spam.
Interesting.
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
Oh, that'll show them. I can just see China's head of information management saying to himself "I never thought it would come to this! Black weblogs! Damn those clever bastards!"
Webloggers have always had a hugely inflated sense of self-importance, but this is just ridiculous.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
it's the blogosphere. do not fuck with the blogosphere!
sulli
RTFJ.
It all started when Hao Feng Xi submitted a request for unemployment support:
This, of course, infuriated the whole fucking country, and now they're on a mission to stamp out this new form of "viral illiteracy."
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
Some sites in the blogging community are turning black in protest of this event while others are reporting the incident.
Well thank God the all powerful blog-o-sphere is finally using its power to do something instead of just creating a rebellion symbol/meme and linking to real news sources.
Oh wait.
-Colin
china blocking the freedom of speech?!
WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO?!