The Great Firewall At Work

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  • March 11, 2007 at 5:07 pm #32234
    JimmyDimples
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    Forgive the thread necromancy, but those wacky Chinese censors are at it again.  >:(

    I keep… well, KEPT… a LiveJournal telling my family and the "civilian," non-FMG net buds back home on my trials, travails, and other details in my life as an American teacher in China. 

    I was about to post sumthin' last week… and I couldn't get to my site.  Nothing.  I tried checking a friend's LJ.  Zip.  I tried my LJ's Friends page.  Nada.  http://www.livejournal.com? Butkuss.

    A web friend tried sending a .jpg from his photo album there… and that got through.

    Conclusion:  LiveJournal's been Great Firewalled Out. 

    And then over the weekend, I got the news from my buddy, and this article from Wired:

    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72872-0.html?tw=wn_index_3

    This event is just in time for the National People's Congress meeting in Beijing.  Coincidence?

    No guarantee when, or IF, my LJ will be accessible again after the meeting.  Frankly, my cause for continuing to teach here has taken a MAJOR, Tetsuko-strong body blow. If the Powers That Be can't handle a web journal, it has no business handling a foreign language.  🙁

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