China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout

Posted by simoniker on Monday March 29, 2004 @10:01AM from the proxy-your-way-out-of-a-wet-paper-bag dept.

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.'"

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Obligatory Yakov... by 23skiddoo · 2004-03-29 10:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In communist China, government blogs YOU!

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Re:eek by DrunkenTerror · 2004-03-29 10:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In Communist China, lawns pee ON YOU!