Hecaitou Blocked?
Danwei reports (via GVO) that Hecaitou’s two blogs have been blocked by the net nanny, but our (very unoffical) tests indicated it was accessible in Harbin, China, as of 1:20 PM Sunday, January 3rd (Beijing time). Can those of you in China confirm or deny that the sites are still accessible? Herdict, as of that same time, had no reports of Hecaitou being blocked.
Danwei also reported that Lian Yue’s site was blocked, but that didn’t load for us even in the United States, so perhaps there is another issue there.
If this is true, not an auspicious start to the new year for those interested in free speech. Still, it seems as though perhaps the sites aren’t blocked (or aren’t blocked anymore). We await your reports (please be sure to note where you are in China, as well).
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Yes, neither Hercaitou site is accessible from Shanghai.
Lianyue.net has been shut down. Its service provider was hichina.com (中国万网), which is based in Beijing, a subsidiary of Alibaba, it seems.
长平’s website is blocked, too. But it’s hosted outside of China, the site itself is still up.
http://www.changp.com/
This all came about because they were discussing the Liu Xiaobo case on their sites.
http://www.betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?verification=1427&domain=lianyue.net&submitbtn=Continue
Domain Name ………………… lianyue.net
Name Server ………………… dns19.hichina.com
dns20.hichina.com
Technical Organization ………. HiChina Web Solutions Limited
Technical Address …………… 3/F., HiChina Mansion
No.27 Gulouwai Avenue
Dongcheng District
Technical City ……………… Beijing
Technical Province/State …….. Beijing
http://www.hichina.com/
中国万网成立于1996年，是阿里巴巴公司旗下成员。中国万网是中国领先的互联网应用服务提供商，企业网络服务首选品牌。
The Hecaitou blogs were inaccessible (Hebei province), but accessible through proxy. Lian Yue was not accessible even with a proxy, so perhaps it’s another issue.
Hecaitou was inaccessible for me in Suzhou. Accessible through freegate.
Lian Yue’s site, like Matt said, seems to have been dismantled entirely. Guess those censorship predictions are coming true all too quickly.
Both Hecaitou’s sites have been blocked for few days (in Beijing)
China Geeks also seems to be blocked again
China Geeks just became blocked today, too.
There seems to be a redoubled effort to block information after the Liu case. There’s been a lot of discussion of the Liu case on Twitter, which probably made the relevant departments upset.
China Geeks just became unblocked again. Seems that they are rejiggering the GFW. There’s some discussion on Twitter about that. See Chang Ping’s twitter page.
Cui Weiping’s interviews regarding the Liu case
http://www.cuiweiping.net/blogs/cuiweiping/archives/134179.aspx
我们不放弃
Re: ChinaGeeks being blocked, we were having some server issues last night, it was probably that.
Good to know. I thought the big guys blew a gasket and were going after English language web pages, too.
China Geeks is available, Hecaitou blocked