This all brings to mind the old saying of "who watches the watchers?"
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Tansom Sent: 24 June 2007 16:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Are you blocked in China? ** Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-24 00:59]: > On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 00:28 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > > I know a lot of the members of this list have blogs, and so I thought > > you might be interested in this tool. > > > > http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/ > > > > This shows you whether or not your website is blocked by the 'great > > firewall of China' (As I'm sure you're aware, the Chinese government > > blocks its citizens access to certain websites) > > > > I was surprised to find that my site at www.justuber.com/blog was blocked! > > > > It says "Your URL is blocked" and then "The version, 1.0 may report > sites as being 'blocked' while there are only technical reasons for > their unavailability. Read the about page for more info." ** end quote [Alan Pope] Yes, I'd have to say that the test must be somewhat hit and miss. I tried microsoft.com, bbc.co.uk and ubuntu.com and only ubuntu.com wasn't blocked. The record of earlier tests indicated that both microsoft.com and bbc.co.uk were a bit up and down on the block with Microsoft being more blocked than not and BBC being more not than blocked. I've also tested 10 sites that I have/had involvement with and every single one was blocked, even one that was recently registered and lacked more than a holding page at the moment, and one that (apart from linking to some of the others) simply had a cute picture of a dolphin on (registerd back in 2000, spent a while as coming soon and now in 2007 is coming eventually - perhaps coming if I'm lucky is more accurate!). Perhaps they work on an "if in doubt block" basis and approve sites rather than blocking ones they don't like. -- Paul Tansom -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
