A few months ago many delighted voices were surrounding in Chinese blogsphere about the opening of Blogger.com. As you might know, Blogger.com was not accessible in China before because of a wall or something like that. At the beginning many people were still waiting to see if it’s really re-opened in China, because Chinese Internet is like English weather – you never know what’s gonna happen the next day. But after a few weeks, people started confirming that blogger.com was indeed became accessible in China and many signed up for new accounts.
I like blogger’s publishing platform, especially the beta one they launched no long ago. So I encouraged Jenn to give up her MSNspace and use blogger.com. I had one for myself as well, just to wrote some daily random stuff. But when I invited some friends in China to read my blog yesterday, they said they can’t open it. After confirming with other friends, they told me blogger.com is blocked in China, and it’s a few weeks ago.
However blogger.com is not alone, the newly launched Vox, seems also blocked in China. Why? Everybody knows, but I still like to put the question – “WHO KNOWS?’
There are also rumours about some major email like @163.com and sina.com can’t received emails sent from Gmail. It’s not proved yet, but quite a few people try to test it and also a few other people said they can’t received emails from Gmail. I sent an English email to my friend’s 163.com account a few weeks ago, but not yet received any reply yet. But I guess this is more like a business related blocking rather than political one. But again, who knows!
Guess I need to learn how to use proxy when I go back for holiday.