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China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Re:snail mail by grub · · Score: 0, Troll


    How about combine blogging with snail mail?

    They already have. Think of those nauseating photocopied letters you get from family and friends around Christmas. "Little Johnny had his first poop on his own now! Little Sally sold 100 boxes of cookies for Girl Guides!" etc etc

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  2. Re:China is blocking information, but US is blocki by Neil+Blender · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does negative metamodderation get you banned from moderating? That would be nice.

  3. IN COMMUNIST CHINA by fran_m87yahoo.com.br · · Score: 0, Troll

    THE INTERNET BLOCKS YOU

  4. Whatever by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hear the chinese are bad for our capitalistic selves. I mean what did China do for me personally?

    Mod suggestions, -1 stupid and -1 troll.

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  5. Re:Oh, bitter irony by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually I am going to have to say that the internet is both a commercial and non-commerical entity and neither. I'll meet you halfway and agree that providing machines that provide dedicated access Wikipedia or Guttenburg and couldn't browse to beyond that (one website per machine, though multiple machines for each is more than reasonable) would be a good thing, but I don't at all feel obliged for my tax dollars to go to feeding someone's public child porn addiction.

    But yes, the internet = TV. Its all only entertainment no matter how serious an individual thinks it is.