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If I had to wager a guess, I'd say this is probably due to the 18th Party Congress going on in Beijing right now, and that the block will be lifted sometime in the next week, once the transfer of power is over. I think we may see some more moderates come to power, so I wouldn't expect this to continue. Whether or not Wang Yang gets a seat in the Standing Committee will be a good bellwether though.
Hope this shoots the CCP in the foot. The interwebs are awash w/ the latest US election results, and viral youtube videos of Obama thanking his young twentysomething campaign staffers. To give young Chinese such a glimpse of this and then brutally remind them that they don't have such luxuries of idealism and empowerment just highlights the failings of the CCP system even more...
Until then, long live dns servers & vpn.
I'm located in Shenzhen, China and all those domains work as usual except for Google+ and Google Docs which have been banned for a while. Google DNS also works as usual. Even Google.cn redirects to Google.com.hk as usual. Guess I'm either lucky or this was a very short lived ban in the middle of the night. edit: Reading the article again, it seems Google didn't actually confirm the block. They simply stated there was…
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to a point... enough economic pressure will eventually trigger revolution... or can at least make it very unpleasant for the government to continue it's ridiculous position
> eventually trigger revolution. These are the Chinese we're talking about..
Is this supposed to mean that the Chinese are too tame and subservient?
They already had a huge communist revolution -- and two more revolutions in the last 120 years (the Boxer and the Hsin-hai Revolution). Even the last 2-3 decades, they had massive strikes and struggles, and the Tien-An Men square thing.
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you mean, as long as one is not saying something the government dislike anything goes... just like in any dictatorship.
If that is your qualification for a dictatorship, then the U.S falls in that category as well. See WikiLeaks, and Assange.
I'm located in Shenzhen, China and all those domains work as usual except for Google+ and Google Docs which have been banned for a while. Google DNS also works as usual. Even Google.cn redirects to Google.com.hk as usual. Guess I'm either lucky or this was a very short lived ban in the middle of the night. edit: Reading the article again, it seems Google didn't actually confirm the block. They simply stated there was…
Google.com is blocked too. Neither google.com nor gmail were blocked yesterday. Youtube has always been blocked and Docs has worked once since I got here.
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The same thing that happens when we visit websites with Facebook embedded. It just fails.
'it' being the embedded component or the whole page? My guess is that it would depend on whether the old sychronous code or the newer async GA code was used. Not sure if the former is even still supported.
I'm located in Shenzhen, China and all those domains work as usual except for Google+ and Google Docs which have been banned for a while. Google DNS also works as usual. Even Google.cn redirects to Google.com.hk as usual. Guess I'm either lucky or this was a very short lived ban in the middle of the night. edit: Reading the article again, it seems Google didn't actually confirm the block. They simply stated there was…