China Blocked Flickr

Don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but apparently China has blocked access to photos hosted by Flickr.

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I saw a discussion for it on Flickr the other day, but I can’t seem to find that link. There’s a political debate in the midst of all this, but I’m going to start putting my photos on Google’s Picasa thing for now. I have a feeling that the block isn’t only because of “racy” images, but it’s a total guess.

I know Google has a way to filter out information that the Chinese government deems not cool (at leas that’s what a little birdy once told me.) I bet Flickr currently does not have these capabilities.

You just need this firefox extension and it’s all good… addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286

As for the thousands of other banned sites, just use a proxy server. CCP are a bunch of amateurs when it comes to restricting freedom of speech.

[quote=“Damage”]You just need this firefox extension and it’s all good… addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286

As for the thousands of other banned sites, just use a proxy server. CCP are a bunch of amateurs when it comes to restricting freedom of speech.[/quote]
Yes, for me, you and other technically apt people, solutions exist. But these bans are effective for the average internet user.

Yes, you’re right. I was just throwing that out there in case anyone is going to travel to China.

I’m currently living in Beijing and I don’t really understand their censorship policy at all. Some sites like Flickr, livejournal, BBC, wikipedia and others are banned, but there are others that aren’t that might seem “anti-CCP” or whatever. Taipei Times is one example. Also there are a bunch of porn sites that you can access here without having to use a proxy. I wonder how they choose what people can and cannot view. I guess it would be hard to go through every single website in the world.