May 3, 2013

The Great Firewall

A reader writes:
You'll be honored to know that my son says he can't get to your blog from Beijing, although he can sometimes get to Cochran's.

By Steve Sailer on 5/03/2013

18 comments:

Stafford James said...

O.T.: Anti-White Media-Bias in 1899.

5/3/13, 8:32 PM
Kai Carver said...

All blogspot is blocked in China, so don't feel special...

5/3/13, 9:21 PM
Anonymous said...

It has nothing to do with you. All blogspot.com domains are blocked there.

5/3/13, 9:22 PM
Anonymous said...

A nation can have either a state-run media or a media-run state. The Chinese have made the right choice on this. That's one reason why China is poised to inherit the world right now.

5/3/13, 9:23 PM
spandrell said...

Blogspot and Wordpress are all blocked for good.

All site which shows user-generated content is blocked. All blogs, twitter, SNS, Youtube, etc.

Sorry but the CCP doesn't care about you. They did specifically block the NYT last year after the article on the Prime Minister's billions.

5/3/13, 9:40 PM
hbd chick said...

@spandrell - "Blogspot and Wordpress are all blocked for good."

hmmm. greg cochran's blog, west hunter, is a wordpress blog. -?-

5/3/13, 10:07 PM
'PRC furtively reads, is influenced by me' said...

Sheesh you guys are strictly buzzkillers...

5/3/13, 10:42 PM
implied insult said...

Yes, Cochran is so far ahead of all his colleagues in academia that he can evade the most sophisticated censor algorithms over there

5/3/13, 10:44 PM
gcochran said...


I'd rather be banned in China. I'll see to it.

5/3/13, 10:58 PM
Anonymous said...

This is old news. Use www.ninjacloak.com to get around it.

5/3/13, 10:59 PM
Anonymous said...

Leaving aside the blogspot issue, why would china want to block Sailer? Do they want the U.S. to be in ignorant of HBD? That's plausible.

5/3/13, 11:14 PM
x said...

so what has been said on this blog that the chinese govt finds so distasteful? does the politburo have a soft spot for mexicans and malcolm gladwell? maybe it just doesn't want chinese people to know what a basketcase the u.s is so they won't want to move there anymore, lessening china's overpopulation issues? stretch, but help me out here folks!

5/3/13, 11:49 PM
spandrell said...

I sure can't get to West Hunter. Nor my own blog!

5/4/13, 6:55 AM
LemmusLemmus said...

People keep saying that all of blogspot is blocked in China, but I have a blogspot blog and get the occasional visit from China. The last one was from "Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China".

Is Statcounter wrong? Do government officials with special privileges read my stuff? Or is the received wisdom on China and blogspot simply mistaken?

5/4/13, 8:40 AM
Anonymous said...

Statcounter might be right. When I was in China a few years ago I attempted to visit my own Flickr page and saw only boxes with outlines, no actual pictures that I had uploaded. I could upload pictures to Flickr but I couldn't view them. Thanks Great Firewall!

5/4/13, 11:10 AM
Carrots McClain said...

You Tube is also blocked in China, so you're in good company, Steve. You should make it known to the Chinese Embassy that you ridicule and disagree with much of what our government does; they just might pull some strings to make an exception for you. It might be worth it, opening up the blog to a billion+ readers could help your bottom line, if you are get paid for site stats.

5/4/13, 5:55 PM
Randall Parker said...

Is there a way to automatically find out if a blog is blocked in China? My blogs aren't on Wordpress or Blogspot. So I'm wondering if I'm blocked.

5/4/13, 7:59 PM
Jerry said...

China still has the Great Wall (the stone one) on its currency. Their mentality of self-isolation runs quite deep, although by contrast the people themselves are quite open and friendly (as were those in Iran when I went there). Oh well... all the money in China features a picture of Mao, the greatest mass murderer in history. What a country!

5/5/13, 6:02 AM

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