China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by jimmyjim » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article
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Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by untog » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:17 PM UTC

Well, at least we know the article is telling the truth now.

Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by Claudus » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

So, combining these two statements, it seems that they blocked both sites 30 minutes before the article was posted in Chinese?

If that's true, it's disappointing the Times didn't do a simultaneous release in anticipation of the block.

"HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access Friday morning to the English-language and Chinese-language Web sites of The New York Times"

"By 7 a.m. Friday in China, access to both the English- and Chinese-language Web sites of The Times was blocked (...). The Times had posted the article in English at 4:34 p.m. on Thursday in New York (4:34 a.m. Friday in Beijing), and finished posting the article in Chinese three hours later after the translation of final edits to the English-language version."

Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by Claudus » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #2

Well, at least we know the article is telling the truth now.

I was only motivated to read the original article after I saw it had been blocked.

Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by erynvorn » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:31 PM UTC

Claudus wrote: post #4

untog wrote: post #2

Well, at least we know the article is telling the truth now.

I was only motivated to read the original article after I saw it had been blocked.

And it is not blocked in Hong Kong! Still one country, two rules...

Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:33 PM UTC

Claudus wrote: post #3

So, combining these two statements, it seems that they blocked both sites 30 minutes before the article was posted in Chinese? If that's true, it's disappointing the Times didn't do a simultaneous release in anticipation of the block. " HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access Friday morning to the English-language and Chinese-language Web sites of The New York Times " " By 7 a.m. Friday in China, ac…

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Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by jcromartie » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

It happens in pockets of the US, too: Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/fal...

EDIT: mircocosm was a poor word choice

Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by apaprocki » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:39 PM UTC

erynvorn wrote: post #5

Claudus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was only motivated to read the original article after I saw it had been blocked.

And it is not blocked in Hong Kong! Still one country, two rules...

And even when they blocked Bloomberg, the articles could still be read by anyone in China with a Bloomberg terminal..

Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by Vivtek » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:41 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #6

Claudus wrote: post #3

So, combining these two statements, it seems that they blocked both sites 30 minutes before the article was posted in Chinese? If that's true, it's disappointing the Times didn't do a simultaneous release in anticipation of the block. " HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access Friday morning to the English-language and Chinese-language Web sites of The New York Times " " By 7 a.m. Friday in China, ac…

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No, the second statement says it was posted at 4:34 in English, and three hours later in Chinese (about 7:30), half an hour after it had been blocked in both versions.

Re: China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

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Post by nitrogen » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 2:41 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #6

Claudus wrote: post #3

So, combining these two statements, it seems that they blocked both sites 30 minutes before the article was posted in Chinese? If that's true, it's disappointing the Times didn't do a simultaneous release in anticipation of the block. " HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access Friday morning to the English-language and Chinese-language Web sites of The New York Times " " By 7 a.m. Friday in China, ac…

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The OP was saying that the original English article was posted 3 hours before the Chinese version, giving the Chinese government time to block NYT before the Chinese language version was published.