You there! Yes you. Do you take your freedom to surf the web for granted? I’m sure we all do and I’m sure most of us have tasted what it is to be blocked when viewing innocent web sites at work. It’s sort of sour with a bitter after taste.
Well then you can imagine what it must be like for Internet savvy surfers in China; a country notorious for censoring the Internet. Touted as having some of the most sophisticated firewalls in the world, greatfirewallofchina.org lets you check if you can pass China’s strict IP monitors. Apparently Next Lust is blocked. Yes, we here are nothing but hordes of anti-socialistic tech journalists with a hidden anti-red agenda.
What about your site? Are you blocked? Sound off!
UPDATE: Some people are reporting on and off blocking with the same tested URLS. It seems China’s IP blockade is not accurate and whatever algorithm they’re using to determine what should be blocked isn’t entirely absolute. However as of this past friday, all LiveJournal sites are blocked. That’s roughly 1.8 million blogs. Although China has reached agreements with Microsoft’s MSN Spaces, other blog hosting companies like Google’s Blogger and Six Apart’s Typepad are still periodically blocked.
The Chinese Government gave no reasons why all LiveJournal blogs were blocked, but one can deduce the highly personal voice found among LiveJournal users didn’t sit too well with the Red Party.
Hat-tip to fellow NextLuster John Dougherty
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March 4th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Damn my personal website is blocked (www.lnj.id.au) there is nothing more on there then some photos and wedding details. I wonder if they just block everything then let websites they have been to through?
March 5th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
gee, these guys don’t have a sense of humor, or maybe they didn’t like my recipes
March 5th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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March 5th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Holy shit, my personal website is blocked? My extremely strict school website blockers haven’t blocked my site, yet China did…
That’s sad.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
well my website is not blocked i wonder why? hummmm
March 5th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Hmmm …. Their people will find ways to get to http://www.toywuala.com site.
they probably like their kids to play with Chinese wooden toys
March 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
This thing is a joke. Bascially every website I tried is shown ‘blocked’, including the ones I know for sure can be accessed from China.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
they blocked the suspected server(ip), which may contain any unwanted material. unfortunately your website resided on this same server or sharing the same ip. you are a innocent victim. but what I hated the most is they even block wikipedia, I just don’t get it!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Hmm, I wonder if game websites are blocked.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
OMG they blocked a lot of video sites
March 5th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
This is a bag of shite. It just says everything is blocked. Anyone can make a crap site that does that. Whoever dugg this is a tosser
March 5th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I’d be a bit suspicious about the results. I was in Shanghai in February last year & my hotel had free Internet so I was able to do some fairly comprehensive testing. I found only 1 or 2 sites out of hundreds in my bookmarks were blocked (or not working).
March 5th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
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March 5th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
even an electronic store? http://www.ohwuala.com
March 5th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Freedom of Speech
March 5th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
behold the power of Fark, unblocked in China
March 5th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
[…] There’s a website that claims to test to see if China’s firewall is blocking your website. It appears to be broken, because I somehow doubt that they would be blocking their own state news agency’s site. […]
March 5th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Said URL Available for godlikeproductions.com.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
I’m blocked. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????
March 5th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
The site I tried was not blocked. Not ALL sites are blocked. Try www.nmsu.edu
March 5th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
The first time I typed in http://www.theworldsmostvisitedwebsite.com the results said it was blocked and i thought why? so I type it in again the second time said it wasn’t? Is this for real?
March 5th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
my open source software/ web proxy website is blocked
March 5th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
crap
March 5th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
site doesn’t work
you’ve been dugg
March 5th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
[…] I checked a few other sources to confirm the story and by all accounts, it seems true. The story has already been dug on Digg by Next Lust. Then I checked the Great Firewall of China and sent my URL in to be tested. My URL is blocked too! Take a look at some of the other websites that have been blocked. If you scroll over the website you can read how many times that website has been blocked. Is this thing for real? I have to admit, I’m pretty bothered by this. […]
March 5th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Thank goodness my website http://www.DCguide.com is not blocked…but I don’t think I get much traffic from China anyways.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
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March 5th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
site doesn’t work.you’ve been dugg
March 5th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
I am in China right now, only a few sites blocked and there are ways around that as well. Not as super-savvy as one might think, but then again most of us here are puter literate…….
March 5th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I’m an expat sitting in an office in Beijing China right now, and i assure you: nextlust.com is NOT blocked as is stated in the explanatory text. However: I can confirm that many many websites are blocked here in China. Many of you (as I can see from the comments here) will notice or have noticed that your personal websites are blocked. I have frequently tried to access websites of my friends back at home (i’m German) and indeed it seems like most sites are blocked, though not all (i don’t know why some are and some aren’t).
Some popular sites that are definetly blocked:
- www.bbc.co.uk
- www.wikipedia.com (or any other wikipedia such as wikipedia.de and all affiliated websites such as wikiquotes)
PLEASE DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE THAT IS CITED AS APPARENTLY “KNOWING” WHICH WEBSITES ARE BLOCKED AND WHICH ARE NOT. I HAVE TRIED TO FIND SIMILAR TOOLS BACK IN GERMANY AND HAVE FOUND NONE TO BE ACCURATE. The best way to do that is to come to China and figure it out yourself. Why would you want to know if you’re in the States or in Europe anyways?
March 5th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Oh yes:
google videos and many many many blog websites also dont work here.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
I’m in China and i just clicked the links of some of the websites that are apparently blocked in china.
Most of the worked (exception being wikipedia, but i knew that one in advance
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March 5th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
I’ll have a number 42 without rice !!!
March 6th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Its amazing how they block a lot of sites, yet the ISP i work for finds 1000s of people on their networks trying to hack into our web/dns servers on a weekly basis. I think we’ve ACL’d a good chuck of C classes from the side of the world at this rate and will continue to do so.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:52 am
lol i’d hate to be stuck in china with its damned internet. my personal website was blocked and for the past year it’s only got the word “in construction”.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:13 am
This site is not reporting blocks correctly, I have http://www.sockmonkeysanctuary.com which i know is accessible from china (by users in china), but this site is saying it’s blocked.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:44 am
[…] Link […]
March 6th, 2007 at 3:28 am
www.bbc.co.uk not blocked
www.wikipedia.com blocked
March 6th, 2007 at 3:46 am
[…] Around The World: Blocked in China! March 6, 2007 on 12:46 pm | In general | China; a country notorious for censoring the Internet. Touted as having some of the most sophisticated firewalls in the world, greatfirewallofchina.org lets you check if you can pass China’s strict IP monitors.read more | digg story […]
March 6th, 2007 at 4:13 am
my site is blocked. Oh well, I really doubt it will have a negative effect anyway. That said, it certainly is a major step away from net freedom.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Has anyone thought about how this site actually works? I’m guessing they have a server box or something running in mainland China that they ping websites from and send the details back. With all the traffic it has gotten from digg it could be timing out or something. something….something…..
March 6th, 2007 at 4:44 am
i tested it on our site:
http://www.scriptsoftware.com
and it said it was blocked. i read a few comments and tried it again and found it was not blocked. i can think of a few reasons.
1. the net is kind of flaky in china and in between.
2. digging this testing site may be overwhelming it which is understandable considering many sites in the US and Europe get overwhelmed by the attention.
3. something in the programming may be kind of off in the testing process (like timeouts, etc.)
but it is an interesting and useful thing to do.
thanks
julian
March 6th, 2007 at 5:10 am
could just be that the site is fake. and doesn’t actually perform the check…….
March 6th, 2007 at 6:19 am
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March 6th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Mine’s not blocked
March 6th, 2007 at 6:59 am
The Chinese can seefonefresh.com, a site where users can store and share uncensored photos, video, and art directly from their mobile phones. Don’t let the reds get wind of this, or we’ll be blocked quicker than you can say “Long live Mao.”
March 6th, 2007 at 7:17 am
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March 6th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Finally, i found the reason of the few visits on my blog…
March 6th, 2007 at 7:34 am
www.theaveragewhiteguy.com - My Blog is in fact accessible in China. I’m honored that people who won’t understand my wit, humor, personality, sarcasm, or shotty English are able to read my posts. This is a great day for the Average White Guy.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:39 am
It says even google is blocked!
March 6th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Great tip for webmasters… Thanks.
March 6th, 2007 at 8:02 am
China loves me I am not blocked yet, I hope they enjoy the humor on my site, and maybe they can use my tips to get a better job. http://www.theconsultantblog.com
March 6th, 2007 at 8:45 am
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March 6th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
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March 6th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
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March 6th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
I am tired of always seeing China getting the blame for internet censorship, while Germany does similar things and gets away with it. You might say, Germany blocks neonazi-sites which nobody would miss, but I doubt even Israel does the same. However, China has a socialist government, so those “anti-socialistic tech journalists with a hidden anti-red agenda” at NextLust will use anything it needs to discredit it. I am not pretending that China is more democratic than Germany, but at least the world is aware about China’s dictatorship regime.
In Germany, some politicans are even proposing laws which would put people who play videogames in prisons (they claim they’ll do that only with “violent” videogames, but since they have gone so far to call “Final Fantazy 7″ a violent videogame this is no better than Hitler’s burning of books). With millions of people playing such games, it’s obviously there won’t be enough place in prisons for them - they’ll need concentration camps (not that I have suspicions about willingness of Germans to form concentration camps). I know I would much rather live in China than in Germany - in China, at least I wouldn’t be looked upon as a criminal because I have a hobby which some narrow-minded politician doesn’t like and understand.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:34 am
[…] Great Firewall of China (from NextLust) - Want to see which sites are blocked behind the Great Firewall of China? Just visit this site and pass in your link. Apparently all livejournals are have been block recently. I just tested krunk4ever.com and it appears to be valid within China. […]
March 7th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Hey.
I am currently living in China. and this site works just fine : )
March 8th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
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March 8th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
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March 9th, 2007 at 7:39 am
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March 18th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Ironically enough all of the blogs and sites that I have are being blocked. Even though the majority of them are being hosted by Google.com who is not blocked by the way.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
use any proxy site to get around .
- www.udorjey.com
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:25 am
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April 10th, 2007 at 2:18 am
G3 Creative is only a graphic design company and is not political in anyway. The website only contains information on design and advertising and samples of work so why, oh why can’t the Chinese people see it?
Does anyone know a way round this?
Dave Mac
G3 Creative Scotland
April 16th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Here is another test tool providing details in real-time if a website is blocked from China:
http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html
You can select between multiple cities in China.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
[…] Did you know China Blocks the Penguin Super Show? […]
May 8th, 2007 at 1:01 am
try this
http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/
eg.
http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.myweb.com
August 12th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I doubt the result. Seems every site I tested was block, even China’s own site!
August 14th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Types Of Computer Viruses…
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…
September 14th, 2007 at 9:05 am
WOW! IM AWSUM!
October 9th, 2007 at 9:40 am
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October 21st, 2007 at 10:45 am
My business websites are all blocked???
Problems cannot be solved through isolation, but analysis of the problems and developing creative solution. Isolation is done by people who are incompetent and has done too many unrighteous thing. A righteous and loving person will have the wisdom to handle difficult situation.
Well…the world is filled with many unrighteous and incompetent people…so guess those that are in the other categories need to work harder!
Something to think about :
If anyone can come out with a business just to bypass all these blocking, that will be a good business! Guess those that block websites will start thinking about how people can pay them to unblock websites….ha ha ha!!! Corruption all over the world!!!
“when the going gets tough, the tough gets going”
October 29th, 2007 at 3:39 am
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November 17th, 2007 at 8:45 am
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December 17th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I’m from Canada, but I’m teaching English in China. This IP blocking is madness. I’ve had my school call my ISP, even their HQ, and they insist they don’t block any website or any port.
Do I really need to be lied to? …
December 17th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
By the way, I’ve tried several testers, and they all say western websites work. However, I’M IN CHINA!, I ASSURE YOU THEY ARE BLOCKED!
December 26th, 2007 at 10:20 am
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
this site is also blocked in China..can’t even check which is block which is not
December 30th, 2007 at 9:46 am
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