China: Technorati blocked

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 @ 06:18 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:
China
Topics:
Breaking News, Freedom of Speech, Disaster, Internet & Telecoms, Software & Tools

Technorati has been blocked. Albeit limited, Technorati used to be the best Chinese-language aggregating one could hope to get.

3 comments

  • Winds of Change.NET

    China Blocking Technorati

    The title says it all.

    # 2006-04-26 at 12:07 pm
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  • Pingback: Tags and censorship at Within / Without

    [...] Sad thing is, once the government gets the wind of it, they’ll probably block access to the tagging site (Technorati, Del.icio.us), so it’s people who are not blocked by the firewall who end up accessing the information. Technorati for a start appears to be blocked in parts of China. [...]

    # 2006-04-27 at 4:40 am

  • Andrew Lih

    Technorati Inaccessible in PRC

    A number of folks have reported that as of two days ago Technorati, the most useful blog search engine, has been inaccessible from inside the PRC. That’s unfortunate, as it had a decent number of Chinese blog sites indexed. Don’t be surpris…

    # 2006-04-27 at 12:11 pm
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