Fuddland
Continuing my occasional reports on internet access in China: within the last week or so, the restriction of access to the English-language version of Wikipedia from China was lifted — whilst this is good news for me and other users who were previously forced to access via a slow proxy service, I’m left wondering what exactly changed sufficiently for the block to be removed: was a sensitive article removed or extensively edited? If so, was the information it originally contained right, or inaccurate? [The Wikipedia page about this whole issue doesn’t have any of the answers.]
Update: More detail in the article specifically about Wikipedia access in China. The lift has been reported to be in effect only in certain parts of the country, and certain pages within Wikipedia may still be unavailable.
Comments
susannah | 2006 / 11 / 18 – 22:57
Is it still available? I heard access was blocked again.
David | 2006 / 11 / 19 – 08:11
Re #1: Yeah, it’s gone again. Blogger-powered weblogs became inaccessible once more a few weeks ago too. No idea why. :(
David | 2006 / 11 / 21 – 23:02
Hmm, Blogger’s unblocked as of today. Who knows why?
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