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Technorati Slams Into China's Firewall
David Utter
Staff Writer
2006-04-27
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The blog search engine has received and is looking into reports that users in China cannot get to Technorati from there.
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"Of course, we're taking these reports very seriously, and we're trying to get more accurate information," Adam Hertz posted at Technorati. "We'll let you know when we know more."
The first reports of this taking place appeared on the blog written by Thought Leaders podcaster Tom Raftery. He cited an email from ChinesePod's Ken Carroll about Technorati running afoul of the Great Firewall.
Carroll also posted about this in Raftery's comment section:
Who knows what will happen? In China anything could change tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if Technorai was back in a day or two. On the other hand, it could be permanent.
Ironically, this is a bit like being banned by Google - happened to me last year on another site. Nothing you can do or say, just wait and see. Nor do the people who ban you give you the vaguest hope of an explanation.
Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg also noted there that the same thing happened to Wordpress.com as well:
We even came back for a few days, then were banned again. It's pretty hard to figure out who to contact about it.
What I did notice though was while our traffic disappeared from China, we started seeing huge bursts from other Asian countries like Singapore which I suspect is people coming to us through proxies.
The Mad About Shanghai blog posting about this issue offered hints in its comments that the blocking may have to do with the approaching anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
That took place on June 4, 1989, and it is not referred to directly in the blog; commenters call it the "special day" to avoid drawing the attention of Chinese Internet censors.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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