YouTube blocked in China; Flickr, Blogspot restored
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InfoWorld - Â China watchers, get your scorecards out: Google's YouTube is blocked,Â Wikipedia is still blocked, but, for the moment, Google blog site Blogspot.com is available and some pictures from Yahoo's Flickr photos can once again be viewed.
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Blog: Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield offers a tip on how to get around Chinese blocking of Yahoo's photo-sharing site.
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Chinese are uploading more Internet videos of sex, scandal and protest. It's big business  -  and a headache for Beijing
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(InfoWorld) - Wikipedia's English site is blocked again in China, after over two months of being accessible, continuing a saga of on-again, off-again availability. Users in Shanghai and Beijing confirmed Wednesday and Thursday that they were no longer able to visit the site. Wikipedia's own account states that the block resumed on Aug. 31, although some users in China said the site has only been unavailable starting this week. China regularly blocks access to Web sites that it finds objectionable, including those dealing with politically sensitive subjects such as the Falun Gong religious cult and independence for Taiwan and Tibet, along with some pornographic sites. The Chinese government does not announce or comment on when a site is blocked or made available. Because the version of events or political views expressed on Wikipedia are not necessarily in line with those of the Chinese government, the government may be blocking access to the site. The current blocking may be related to the upcoming Communist Party Congress, which begins Oct. 15 in Beijing. Held once every five years, the meeting is the Chinese government's most important political gathering, used to create five-year plans, which are the bedrock of China's centrally-planned economy. It is also often used to reshuffle government positions or for leaders to consolidate their power. WhileÂ Wikipedia's English site is occasionally available, its Chinese-language sites are almost permanently blocked, although access is sometimes permitted for one or two days at a time. "Right now there seems to be an intensive government-mandated freeze on the Internet in China, particularly on Web sites with user-generated content," said Jeremy Goldkorn, editor of Danwei.org, a Beijing-based blog that covers China's media. "It seems that the attitude towards Web sites hosted abroad is also hostile right now, which may explain the latest block on Wikipedia." Â
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Google Inc. (GOOG)'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."    Dynamic Internet Technology Inc., a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the Internet in China...
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Web-surfers outside the US have been blocked from visiting the official George W. Bush campaign website. UK-based internet monitoring firm Netcraft first noticed the blockage Monday morning.
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China's government backpedaled slightly from its earlier policy concerning video sites, now saying that existing sites can continue to operate.
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The government has agreed to unblock the popular video-sharing site after a flap involving videos mocking its king, saying YouTube has agreed in turn to block videos flagged as illegal.
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InfoWorld - Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai said attempts to access GoogleÂ and other search engines were successful Friday, despite claims on a U.S. blog that traffic to theseÂ sites was redirectedÂ to Chinese search engine Baidu.com.
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Internet users in China said attempts to access Google were successful, despite claims on a US blog that traffic was redirected to Baidu.com.
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Blog: Flickr says it is being blocked in China, while blogger Violet Blue says her Flickr images have been put behind a members-only wall
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RABAT, Morocco - Moroccans were able to access the video sharing Web site YouTube on Wednesday for the first time since access was blocked last week.
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Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai said attempts to access Google Inc. and other search engines were successful Friday, despite claims on a U.S. blog that traffic to these sites was redirected to Chinese search engine Baidu.com Inc.
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How very un-American Last week, it was Flickr. This week, itâs YouTube.â¦
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After over two months of availability, access to Wikipedia's English-language site once again appears to be blocked for China-based users.
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By Bruce Einhorn and Ben Elgin  Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft endured a wave of public disapproval earlier this year over their compliance with Chinese censorship of their websites.
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Last week in China - An Open Letter to Google The last week has been quiet on the Chinese Internet front. Maybe it has something to do with nearing Chinese New Year is nearing. And speaking of that, what would a new year be without some good resolutions? Isaac Mao, a blog pioneer in China and co-founder [...]