China Unblocks Again

from the follow-the-bouncing-ball... dept

China's policy on blocking access to western news sites has a lot of people very confused. First, last month, they unblocked a bunch of sites. That only lasted for a few days until they were reblocked - causing some people to think the unblocking was an accident. Now, however, it appears that many news sites are unblocked again, including CNN, who both reported this story, and was never unblocked during the last unblocking. Am I the only person who pictures someone sitting in the "office of censorship" or whatever it is, with a list of sites each day with little checkboxes next to them and for fun picks which ones are blocked and which ones are unblocked each morning.
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    anonymous, 18 Oct 2001 @ 12:17am

    blocking

    Nope, you're not the only one. I'm starting
    to get ticked that 1 day I can access some
    site then 2 hours later I can't, then a week
    later I can.

    None of the choices to block make sense to
    me at all.

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  • identicon
    jessantar, 5 Jun 2007 @ 5:04pm

    games

    iwhont to play games

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    blake, 28 Feb 2008 @ 1:07am

    bvored

    i wanna go on bebo grrrrr

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    esae, 27 Mar 2008 @ 2:43am

    fukin blocked sitess

    unblock bebo for me or ill get my older on you init..

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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