Internet Censorship in China

[Zokita]

The Golden Shield Project, also known as the Great Firewall of China, is the Chinese government's attempt to stifle criticism of them on the Internet. In the process, they also censor many other sites.

It might interest you to know that lazytown.com is blocked in China. So is Get Lazy, both the getlazy.tk domain and the actual forum URL.

Click here to test some websites.

[Xizer]

So does anyone have any suggestions for unblocking Get Lazy for our Chinese friends?

Because I hate the Chinese government and I would be glad to do anything I can to help undermine them.

[Jirojin]

Haha, interesting site. Strangely, 420chan is available...

[Vespasian]

I heard about this a while ago, though not to this extent.

Now, to test some sites.


DLT is blocked lol.

[Mosheddy]

I tested lazytown.com about 3 months ago and it was fine. I wonder what has changed o_O

[EdisLeado]

Whaaat? LazyTown is blocked in China? What on earth does LazyTown have to do with criticizing the Chinese government :/ Oh well. My parents always say the government in China isn't the greatest, but the people living there are good.

Huh.

[Elsiar]

My Plans suggest something to do with long black sticks with little holes in em! That shoot little round and pointy things

[Biggymcfinch]

I actually have a silly little story where a WoW gold farmer added loads of people to MSN to advertise and I ended up making friends with her... The point is, she's in Xi'an, China, and we were discussing basically this same thing, and it's ridiculous how much they can't see. To think how much of the internet we've seen, and what hilariously horrible things are out there.
The only good thing is the pun "The Great Firewall of China". Brilliant.

[Numerius Plancus]

Oh no! The official site of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" is blocked!

[Fredrick2003]

China's internet censorship has always scared me...

[nindanjoe]

I decided to give this a look to see if people have tried to bypass the firewal and I found this: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006 ... -of-china/

My bad, there already is information at the Wiki Article. :P

[zstardust]

Besides the fact that it's all b.s., I find it funny because I've seen sites that try to makes themselves look cool because they were "banned in China", when most anything can be banned in China.

[Elsiar]

This simply makes the Internet scary
Kind of reminds me of star trek
TO GO WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE!
The Internet, THE FINAL FRONTIER..

...I hate myself XD

[Biggymcfinch]

Besides the fact that it's all b.s., I find it funny because I've seen sites that try to makes themselves look cool because they were "banned in China", when most anything can be banned in China.

Haha... well, it DOES sound cool.
"Click enter for the largest collection of puppets singing song with a superhero and a small child.
NO JOKES, THIS SHIT IS BANNED IN CHINA."

[moomoo]

Getting banned in China, isn't that a 'good intarwebs seal of approval'?

[Zokita]

I decided to give this a look to see if people have tried to bypass the firewal and I found this: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006 ... -of-china/

My bad, there already is information at the Wiki Article. :P

That was very detailed, thanks for sharing! I actually understood some of it, surprisingly enough.

I should test to see if Dora the Explorer is banned in China too...

[moomoo]

That should be banned everywhere, so the Chinese government probably love it.

[Biggymcfinch]

That should be banned everywhere, so the Chinese government probably love it.

Agreed. What a terrible show...

[Zokita]

...And we're still blocked in China, even with the shiny new URL. I guess they think older LazyTown fans are crazy enough to be a threat to their government (and they might be right )