Comments on: Great Firewall Blocks Xiaxue

By: WishBoNe

WishBoNe — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:10:17 +0000

Firefox may be better in IE in certain sense but it isn’t that powerful to use the fire at the Great Firewall.

By: dc

dc — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:09:12 +0000

use Firefox lah! :>

By: WishBoNe

WishBoNe — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:43:30 +0000

@grace
I think there’re alternatives like proxies. Google for them, they should appear.

By: grace

grace — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:41:30 +0000

hey, i’m having the same problem,. i cant even access my multiply acount. any alternative. i’ll be staying in china for quite awhile. thanks

By: WishBoNe

WishBoNe — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:51:45 +0000

@Sicarii
Which part being right? Blocking everything?

By: Sicarii

Sicarii — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:25:48 +0000

The Chinese government being right for once. There is hope for mankind yet!

By: WishBoNe

WishBoNe — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:52:44 +0000

@Jasmine
I lost the comment that I was going to write because my Internet connect got lost. *sigh*

I think this test is enough for me. I just wanted to know how limited it is if I were to go China to surf without a proxy. It goes to show that the stronger the deterrent, the more people want to get around it.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:58:41 +0000

Okay. Just tried the sites mentioned. Note that I’m currently testing the sites over here at work where the ISP is the company itself. So.. yeah might have a different result as compared to others.

Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Dogpile, Altavista, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, HotBot, AllTheWeb, Ask.com and Lycos are not blocked.

IRAS, MHA, MFA isn’t blocked. Also randomly clicked on the SG Government sites and all of them aren’t blocked.

BBC and ABC both aren’t blocked too. Hm…

I think maybe my office ISP is not as stringent?

They just blocked wordpress.com And oh yea, the ISP my office uses occassionally blocks Multiply whereas I can’t even access Multiply at all at home.

Not sure why flickr’s blocked though. And Photobucket, same problem as Multiply. :-/

Anymore sites you would like me to test? I’ll try the sites again at home and see if it’ll deliver the same results.

By: WishBoNe

WishBoNe — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:03:38 +0000

@Jasmine
I wonder why Flickr is blocked though? They show nudity? Block only Wikipedia’s main page, feels half-baked blocking What about those government sites like IRAS, MFA, MHA? And which search engines are also being blocked. Hee.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:42:16 +0000

Oh and wordpress is blocked occassionally. So is LJ.

And yea, flickr is blocked too.