The Great Firewall of China
Published June 28th, 2007 in PersonalCensorship seems like such a foreign concept until it jumps up and bites you in the ass. I discovered this first hand this week when I sent my father, who works in China, an email. The email contained a link to a story I thought would be of interest to him. The article was innocuous enough, an interview in Der Spiegel with an African economics expert. So imagine my surprise when he emailed me back asking me to cut and paste the text of the article into an email and resend it. Someone once said ‘Every burned book enlightens the world.’ I can’t help but feel that my fingers got burnt…
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Piaras, I\’m afraid to say that the great firewall is doing more that just burning your fingers - it\’s burning your readers\’ fingers too. I work for a PR firm (accapitalpr.com)in Beijing and use a proxy site to read various blogs which are blocked by the Chinese government. Our company blog site - which comments on the Chinese PR industry - was one of them (we think because we commented on the melamine saga involving Chinese firms in the US) so we moved it to a new spot: http://accapital.prblogs.org . Censorship is a problem we encounter working in China, as of last week all flickr photos do not appear (photos of Tiananmen maybe?) although the site does still work. Who knows what is next…
Hi Piaras,
I am on a mini bus on the road back from Jiamusi reading your blog!
Chris
你好，Piaras:
我在从佳木斯回程的路上的面包车里，读你的博客
Chris
sorry to hijack your comments area, but i googled “irish advertising blog” and you came up.
i have some great news for irish advertising peeps. one of us won the palme d’or at cannes recently. brian carmody (formerly of skibereen co. cork, currently of LA), founder of smuggler, accepted the honour for production company of the year.
here he is in action:
http://www.canneslionslive.com/specials/?award=15
spread the word.
Weird, I was in China there and never had any problems with teh internets or sending and recieving links the only exceptions where access to a few sites being restricted (blogspot and wikipedia being the main two) but I was able to access bbc, nytimes and al jazera. Are you positive it was censorship and not just some borked email server on their end?
Yeah, he seems to have problems with a couple of other sites also.