Actually bits is a great target for the country which wants to prevent
people from having access, it makes it look as the problem is on side
of "capitalist wikipedia, which is broken most of time" and thus
people should use the proper encyclopedias of China which are correct
and looking better than crappy css of wikipedia.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed, I live in europe and bits seems to be very
blocked to me :)
there is a problem with connectivity I guess, because I am having this
problem as well most of time, the service is up, but slow, which makes
the load of one page to take minutes
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now there're users reporting in village pump that
>>
http://bits.wikimedia.org/ is blocked in China Mainland. Users
>> visiting
http://zh.wikipedia.org/ see unstyled pages without scripts
>> while
https://zh.wikipedia.org/ works fine.
>>
>
> Tell them to use https then? Have them petition their Government to
> stop censoring them?
>
> bits seems like a very strange service to be blocked, rather than
> commons or wikipedia. Are they *sure* it's being blocked by the
> government?
>
> - Ryan
>
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