July 23, 2007
Nothing we said
We recently noted that this blog was no longer accessible in China, and wondered aloud why Beijing’s shadowy censors had seen fit to target ft.com. Well, we should probably have looked a little more closely at our blog setup. FT Tech Blog actually resides on servers run by blog host company Typepad, and it is access to Typepad that is being blocked by the Great Firewall see here.
So there’s no reason to believe it was something we said that got us blocked - and rather than the target of some of China’s increasingly sophisticated and targetted censorship, we are merely among the many victims of a rather blunt instrument of internet control. Not that that is much comfort, of course.
“increasingly sophisticated and targetted censorship,” and “rather blunt instrument of internet control”
These two ideas contradict one another. Either China’s censors are sophisticated or they are using a blunt instrument. I vote for blunt.
Posted by: Chadsworth McBillinglsy | July 25th, 2007 at 11:23 am | Report this commentDelegates and Super Delegates, our own nightmare
as many say : the trick is the Delegates and Super Delegates, where the insiders in each party will push the chosen ones, a fix and a fraud and no one will say anything ! ,
Posted by: blogger | August 8th, 2007 at 6:26 pm | Report this commentwe need more Debates with precise questions about energy independence,health,immigration, jobs in the future global digital wireless economy,education, trade, foreign relations and war profiteering , etc., before selection of Delegates and Super Delegates, we need Honesty,Vision and Action!