On the Web: The Great Firewall of China
The Chinese government doesn’t want you to see this blog. Or, The Great Firewall of China web site is experiencing technical difficulties, which is the other reason an inquiry on a URL might report back that it is being censored in China.
Excerpts from the Great Firewall of China site:
Tags: Censorship, China, On the Web, Privacy, Web Applications[The aim] of this website is to be a watchdog and keep track of which and how many or how many times sites are censored. Help to keep the censorship transparent. Each blocked website will automatically be added to the great firewall on the homepage.
How it works
We’ve opened a website in China and route your url request on greatfirewallofchina.org through to our server in China. The server in China opens the url and the result is send back. Our testing is only based on one server on one location in China. We have different backup servers in different locations in China might one go down.
Other locations and other servers may give you different access to the various websites.
