A re-direct to www.google.com.tw would have been interesting.
google.cn now redirects to google.com.hk
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#23China blocking google.com.tw for everyone not in Taiwan in 3, 2, 1 ...
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#24That is awesome. www.google.com.tw would have been better.
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Status page as of "now": http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5748/screenshot01u.png Text content of the blog post (sans links): On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of doze…
Thanks for the text, but I have a US proxy. Btw, imageshack is blocked too.
heh, figures. for future reference (and I can repost a new link, if someone wants), know of a public one that's not blocked?
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#26A re-direct to www.google.com.tw would have been interesting.
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#27A re-direct to www.google.com.tw would have been interesting.
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"Traditional Chinese characters are widely used, and are the de facto writing standard in Hong Kong."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Hong_Kong#Written_...
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#28What that means is that people in China will still not be able to see unfiltered results as the Chinese Hong Kong version is blocked from the mainland. Google Hong Kong is uncensored just like most of the world.
No, it's not blocked (yet) - but queries with certain keywords are being filtered as they always have. It appears the keyword filtering is now more severe, as I've mentioned elsewhere.
Why isn't everyone encrypting everything?
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No, it's not blocked (yet) - but queries with certain keywords are being filtered as they always have. It appears the keyword filtering is now more severe, as I've mentioned elsewhere.
Why isn't everyone encrypting everything?
Really? As if most people even know then can, and if they do, they know how?
Always good to remember that non-techies don't even know what options are available much less how to make use of them.
Aside from that, I'd wonder if in China they are worried about getting caught and getting in trouble with the government.
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Why isn't everyone encrypting everything?
Really? As if most people even know then can, and if they do, they know how? Always good to remember that non-techies don't even know what options are available much less how to make use of them. Aside from that, I'd wonder if in China they are worried about getting caught and getting in trouble with the government.
> Aside from that, I'd wonder if in China they are worried about getting caught and getting in trouble with the government.
It's called being "harmonized." They joke about it, but not sure if it's a serious concern. Given their large population I doubt it.