Great Firewall of China!

[Brian SD]

I checked, we can all rest easy because Styleforum is safe an accessible in China, but the list of blocked websites is disturbing.

This website lets you type in an address and it will test to see if that site is accessible or blocked in China. Like I said, it's kind of crazy. Google, Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, lots more are blocked in China.



http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/#

 

[LabelKing]

I typed in www.prada.com and it's apparently blocked. The irony.

 

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I typed in www.prada.com and it's apparently blocked. The irony.
Louis Vitton too! How are they supposed to keep up with the latest designs to make cheap knockoffs?

 

[whodini]

Great! Time to unleash some anti-Communist propaganda threads in CE. Where's Arethusa?

 

[lurker]

Not true. All the above-mentioned sites can be accessed in China. Myspace even has a beta chinese version (www.myspace.cn). One of the exceptions is wikipedia.

 

[Kengs]

i know for a fact that Honda-Tech.com isn't blocked in China, even if the test says it is...

 

[kakemono]

There was a big ongoing battle between Google and China... I think the next step is for Google to buy China - as they are tending to do with everything else that gets in your way of thier one goal - complete world domination.

That and I think wikipedia was told that if they let the chinese gov't censor and control the chinese version, it would be allowed, but wikipedia said no ...thus... no chinese-wiki

 

[Toiletduck]

I can surf, pretty much all websites except for - wikipedia and video google when I'm in China (pretty damn often)