Your logic is faulty. No government has an anti-tourism policy. Some governments have isolationist policies, but that’s another thing.

But many countries have censorship, especially dictatorships (such as, let’s say, China). They try to control the flow of information and ideas, and I even think most Chinese people support that.

So, yes, even the temporary closure could be a wake up call on the webmasters to censor more or face permanent closure.

People in China are NOT blind nor deaf, they always find ways to go around websites that are NOT available.

Moralization is best when it comes out like a gentle breeze from within one’s soul, rather than when inflicted by a safe-and-sound preacher.

Read more at

http://kalamoha.blogspot.com/

“Uighur Online’s closure stands to be a major watershed; the shutting down of channels that stood for communication and discussion just means that all the more people now will choose to cut themselves off, refuse to communicate, or even choose underground activities. People inland have lost the window which led straight to understanding what Uyghur people are thinking, and now will have no choice but to turn to research papers from those academics in the ivory towers to better understand the public sentiment there.”

This is nothing but freak.

Following this kind of logic, I’d like to recommend another piece of news several days ago which was report by 凤凰网（http://news.ifeng.com/）. It was reported the closure a populare publication named 旅游新报 (tourist guide). Is this may become a sign of ongoing chinese anti-tourism policy which chinese government soon would apply or another great evidence that people in chinese have no freedom of press to some people?

The answer is simply not. The newspaper was closed because they reported the chinese earthquake by some bikini girls. I’m not quite sure whether people from different culture may be glad to see hot girls right next to a dying child lie in the ruin of his former home. This was complained by their readers as well as mostly of chinese people.
They support this kind of closure too.
http://news.ifeng.com/society/2/200805/0521_344_552598.shtml

Hopefully we will see the misunderstanding from this piece of news.

Here’s more on the founder and CEO of the website, who sounds like a really amazing guy. I just got a response today from the contact e-mail address provided on the site, the person who responded sounds optimistic that the site will be able to resume operation shortly.

This sentence implies that Uighurs are the only Muslim minority ethnic group, which, of course, is not true.