Comments on: YouTube blocked in China?

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Don’t you find it a little ironic that a site populated with content that blatantly infringes on copyrights and does little to stop these activities doesn’t get blocked (tudou) yet youtube does?

Wow…

By: wolf

wolf — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:51:00 +0000

If you want to unblock YouTube I can advice you one VPN service which always help me to bypass access restricting. It’s the http://strongvpn.com VPN Company. They provide anonymous surfing with fast connection. Hope it could help.

By: Marc van der Chijs

Marc van der Chijs — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:19:00 +0000

@Johnny Tastavins: blogspot accounts have been blocked on and off for the past couple of years. Just use a proxy like Tor (see in the comment above) or anonymouse.org to avoid the problem.

By: Johnny Tastavins

Johnny Tastavins — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:43:00 +0000

Last week I was in Shanghai and Changzhou. It was impossible to get access to blogspot. Do you know something about that?

By: Suzhou

Suzhou — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:36:00 +0000

While Western democratic nations allow free speech, they do have limits and they do outlaw certain offensive material, but legally. And while I don’t have a problem with the blocking of seriously offensive material, I do object to countries that block material outside of the rule of law. The China leaders go to great lengths promoting the development of their country based on the Rule of Law, yet censorship in China is totally lawless! So how can the leadership of China be respected and believed when they allow and support such lawless blocking of non-offensive material. Software development in China is very weak compared to other nations such as USA and India, and the use of such simple and unsophisticated techniques as the Great Firewall filtering is a perfect demonstration of the poor state of software skills in China. Moreso, the lawless nature of these actions is a ironic display of total disregard for the concept of rule of law by Chinese leaders.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:39:00 +0000

I wonder what they will block next. Anyway you guys could just use Tor to bypass the block. It’s way better then the web proxies.
I’ve written a short how-to guide on setting up Tor on your computer.
You can check it out at http://www.greatwall.cn.tp/?p=23

By: Bill M

Bill M — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:05:00 +0000

There are reports that search engine requests are sometines highjacked to Baidu and this has happend for me with Marc’s
site as well – not right now of-course and I’m not using default
dns any more as result.

I can’t get to my googlepages site and many others – ie Wikipedia.

FUD is worst part – you don’t know
what’s going on.

By: Shopgirl

Shopgirl — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:48:00 +0000

it’s irritating because i just started to upload my videoblogs on youtube, but i signed up to metablogs just right now

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:38:00 +0000

so true, I’ve spent most my working day tryna figure out how to get access to an interview with the Founder of “Millions Of Us”, a virtual world development company, only to be completely denied. Forget about the fact that I now miss my weekly doses of anime, comedy stand-up and genereal tom-foolery, I also have to go without youtube as the vital FREE research tool I’ve come to use it as.

For anyone interested, I was able to find a non-free alternative in Shanghai, if Marc doesn’t mind me posting it here..

Its the only proxy site I’ve managed to use that supports youtube video:

http://aniscartujo.com/webproxy/

After loading 6-8 web pages, it’ll prompt you to purchase credit to continue use. What a bitch that there aren’t any free ones!!!