[Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia unblocked in Mainland China

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 20:58:43 UTC 2008


Probably cheaper too. You gotta pay all the spooks monitoring people (and
the snatch and grab teams kidnapping them, and the interrogators etc.). All
that money could be used for more important things (like bribes, and lining
corrupt officials pockets).

-dan
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ian A. Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ting, confirmation of the unblock? I can confirm this. I have a server in
> > Beijing which had access, my friends in Beijing have access and I can
> also
> > confirm that access to Wikipedia, both English and Chinese, was unblocked
> in
> > Huludao (Liaoning Province) as of today.
> [snip]
>
> Perhaps it's just become considered better to allow access then track
> who reads what.  :-/
>
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