China Starts/Stops Blocking Google

shekared was one of a number of readers to write in to tell a similar story. He says "I'm an American currently living and working in Chongqing, China. As of 9am (UTC +8) China began blocking google.com, gmail.com, google analytics and many if not most other google sites other than google.cn. Internet speed for connections outside the mainland have in general have come to a crawl. Surprisingly this has yet to pick up major coverage in the press. Using an open proxy or VPN for connection to hosts outside of the mainland continues to allow access to google, as does connecting directly to a google.com IP address. As of 6pm (UTC +8) access to gmail and google.com have returned to normal."

Comments

Please come to the local station

[ls671]

Dear Sir,

We know who you are, we were just conducting tests and installing tools to enhance your dedicated internet connection.

Now that you have made this public, could you come to the local authorities station right away so we can settle things up ?

If you do not come, we will have to go get you at your work place and we would like to avoid this embarrassment for yourself. We also have enabled airport and border checks for yourself so you won't be allowed to leave the country before we meet.

Regards,
Liu Cheng
Security officer,
Republic of China

Re:Please come to the local station

[William Robinson]

Did you read his SIG...!!!! Probably he lied :-D

Slashdot

[fenring]

I'm posting from China. At least slashdot still wo

Re:Slashdot

[Keeper Of Keys]

Can you still access www.castleargh.com?

Let's all go shop at Walmart to Protest!

[tjstork]

I have a great idea! Let's show our support for Democracy and condemn the actions of the fascist dicatorship with a big shopping spree at Walmart. Maybe if we give these guys 500 billion dollars a year, they will be nice to us and freedom will reign and shower everyone with joy!

It's like a glitch in the Matrix

[Nursie]

They just changed something.

Re:It's like a glitch in the Matrix

[Anonymous Coward]

What people in China don' t know is that the content crossing the firewall is entirely simulated. The rest of the world is an illusion created by The Machines to keep them docile, when in reality most of Earth is a barren wasteland. Quite why The Machines kept this last enclave humans alive and constructed an elaborate fantasy world so that they could spend a significant proportion of their industrial capacity producing plastic crap for the illusory West is anyone's guess.