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Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China

Posted by timothy on

gzipped_tar contributed a link to Moonlight Blog, which says that "SourceForge, the world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to be blocked in Mainland China. The current blocking may be related to the recent anti-China protests of Beijing Olympic Games, which will begin on 8 August. Some days before, a very popular free source code editor in SourceForge named Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008. The project's developer said that the action is not against Chinese people, but against Chinese government's repression against Tibetan unrest earlier in this year. SF.net has once been banned by China in 2002. However, the ban was lifted later in 2003." gzipped_tar adds: "As a SourceForge user in Beijing, I can confirm this first-hand. I also tried traceroute to sourceforge.net, only to find the connection being dropped at a Beijing ISP's gateway router. It appears that the projects' respective homepages are available even if they are hosted by SF, but the summary and download pages are blocked." (As you probably know, Slashdot and Sourceforge share a corporate overlord.)

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  1. Wait for it... by Cytlid · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and yes in the "blocking freedom" event, China has already taken the gold!

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    1. Re:Wait for it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Disqualified for doping violations.

  2. Re:how can a text editor boycott the olympics? by paroneayea · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their homepage has some information on there asking people to protest the olympics.

    Of course a piece of editing software can't itself consciously object to a global event. No software AI is that advanced, not even in a text editor.

    ... though it's my understanding that Emacs comes close. :)
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  3. Re:Why would we care? by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, the committee is known for it's tolerance of complaints~

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  4. Good by furiousxgeorge · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard those lousy pirates in China were downloading files from that site without paying! Another victory in the war against copyright infringement!

    1. Re:Good by __aahurc460 · · Score: 2, Funny

      they have crappy ratios too

  5. Re:how can a text editor boycott the olympics? by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yea, there's no text editing software that couDOWN WITH COMMUNIST BEIJING! FREE TIBET!ld ever object.

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  6. Because they think it's "free" as in Tibet ... by MrData · · Score: 3, Funny
    instead of "free" as in beer!

    "Silly ChiComms never learn, Napalm(TM) sticks to kids!"

  7. Re:how can a text editor boycott the olympics? by volxdragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    M-x boycot-olympics -- Yup, it's in there...of course it crashed it when invoked, but that might be the expected result...

  8. Re:How is it blocked by bky1701 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So in other words, they learned how to handle networks from Comcast. Just great, now they have RSTs and nukes!

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  9. Re:Alright mods... by Jesus_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In addition to RST packets and null routes, the Great Firewall of China now also supports Slashdot post moderation.

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