Great Firewall of China

Great Firewall of China – My Blog is blocked…

http://guiworld.de (domain used for redirection to this blog) is blocked for weeks already here in China.

Today, https://guiworld.wordpress.com is blocked as well.

I mentioned already, that youtube.com is banned… Now, guiworld is blocked as well…

Read more about censhorship in China and The great Firewall of China.

Also very interesting is Rebecca MacKinnon’s Blog, RConversation – unfortunately blocked in China though (not Hongkong). Topics include censorship, blogging in China, Web 2.0

How to…

fan qiang, or “climbing over the wall” — shorthand for circumventing China’s “Great Firewall”:

Proxies

Work-around: use a proxy server. Urls are hidden by it and – given that the proxy is not blocked – you may surf on the site you wish (sometimes with some limitations though…).

Youtubeproxy

click here for more proxies

VPN

VPN (Virtual Private Network) is another successfull way to deroute the firewall. It is like a tunnel undermining all walls… You can either install VPN-Software and connect with your company or university abroad or use a commercial service. I can highly recommend swissvpn.ch. It is quite fast and costs only 5$ a month. No software necessary. You might also want to check SaferSurf.com or Steganos.com.

Free up to 10 GB: www.cyberghostvpn.com

Free *SW* : www.hotspotshield.com … I installed the SW; but it didn’t connect though…

Tor – a distributed, anonymous network

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor is a non-profit project which provides the free software. There is a firefox extension aswell.

Google

Cool! Google.com/translate …paste url, choose ch -> en, and voila Firewall bypassed… thx to compsolutions

Web2Mail – receive webpages via mail

Web2Mail Lite offers access to the web by email. To request instant delivery of a web page, send an email to www@web2mail.com with the address of the web page you want as the subject of your email message. For example an email with the subject “news.bbc.co.uk” would request the BBC news. You should receive a reply within 5 minutes but when I tested it, it took 30min or so.

Web2Mail Lite also enables you to search the web by email. For example, to search for “peanuts” send an email to www@web2mail.com with the subject “search peanuts” in your email message.

A similiar service is www.webtomail.co.cc . But as of this writing (July 2009) this service seem to be off / blocked.

Make a graphic

Do you think, your post includes some “offending” messages? Don’t write text but make a graphic more….

Test

• Testing tool to check whether a site is blocked
  www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html
• Check your current IP-Number
  www.wieistmeineip.de/

Update: Blocked again

guiworld.wordpress.com is blocked again since May 8th!

It was not blocked from May 1st 2009 – May 7th 2009

More Links

• Xiao Qiang: The Development and the State Control of the Chinese Internet short and easy to understand article about the four strategies how censorship in China works
• Bundeskabinett beschließt Gesetzesentwurf zu Kinderporno-Sperren Censorship in Germany?
• Die Gesellschaft für Informatik fordert Taten statt Netzsperren Die Gesellschaft für Informatik erklärt der Großen Koalition, warum Internetsperren im Kampf gegen Kinderpornografie nutzlos sind.
• Censorship on Tiananmen Anniversary Cripples Chinese Net June 4 isn’t just the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, it’s also known as Chinese Internet Maintenance day…
• 80% netizens agree China should punish Facebook …By People’s Daily Online Facebook is blocked since July 7, 2009
• Gegen Internetsperren AK Gegen Internetsperren (German)
• Cashing in on Internet Censorship Feb 20, 2010
  

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