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Q: What are your top three favorites websites blocked in China?
I will reserve my top three for last since they are not what you think. BTW... did you know there are 15 Chinese porn sites that are not blocked? You'll never guess who owns them!
all I know is that facebook and youtube are blocked and I don't care ....... don't and never have frequented them ............. google however .... my gmail and google earth and picasa definately piss me off sometimes............. and just send me the sexy womens pics, my wife needs some sex education and I didn't bring any porn from home......... sure she would appreciate some new moves that I haven't come up with ...SEXY chinese GIRL
Facebook,youtube and bbc i player,I want to cry
MSI:
I miss Bbc iplayer too! Feel sort of like disconnected with the outer world
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube.
I did have a VPN but it's stopped working (must install another).
Helanren:
VPNs are being targeted by the government. So I doubt switching VPN provider will help. The protocol is under fire, not individual providers.
The New York Times, The Washington Post (sometimes), The BBC (now and then), and yes, youtube for sure, and these days
google, gmail and even Yahoo these past few days ...
981977405:
crimo, agreed and we shall overcome, we shall overcome...
Youtube, youtube, youtube. And you know how many websites have their videos linked to youtube. so being a student I suffer alot whenever I try to watch videos related to my subject online.
lists.debian.org (blocked for no good reason)
youtube.com
chinadigitaltimes.net (China news, the important stuff!)
Youtube. most recently the abc.com and nbc.com are restricted in this area. They weren't restricted about a year or so ago.
I agree with the normal list of Facebook, youtube, and Google. But I would like to add most of the western websites I like are at least throttled so they are agonizingly slow. If you cannot beat the competition just lock them out. I believe this is called "protectionism" I recently saw an article complaining that the US does this to Chinese honey. However, in the digital landscape it apparently is ok.
Hugh.G.Rection:
I agree with you that going to any foreign website is incredibly slow, but I've been assured this is normal and not any (overt) attempt at censorship or protectionism, (although it may well be just incompetence), it's just slower when you go outside China.
Personally I didn't believe that until a recent explosion of mine started an argument with my wife. She reminded me that when we lived in the UK, she liked to access HK movies online and that she had to start the stream and leave it for an hour then go back and by that time it would have streamed enough for her to watch it without it hanging. I had to concede that indeed that was true, then she pointed out that now in China with our relatively slow (8mbps) connection those same movies never hang but my FB (via a VPN) does.
I sort of 'lost' that discussion as I think she's got a point. I still think it's down to incompetence (on the part of the Chinese companies) but I have to concede that it happened in the UK too, although I would like to think with the new 70mbps connections it wouldn't happen now.
Can I name more than 3?!
bbc iplayer
google -and all that are related
youtube
At least where I am these days google, even yahoo mail, parts of yahoo, and many parts of many other websites have become very "problematic" these days -- truly so. The other foreign teachers are really up in arms over it -- some of them can access basically nothing except for Baidu and the China Daily.
facebook...is my fav site since facebook site known all over the world..when i was n hk an and my home town i used to log on fb on my mobile so that i automatically update whats my friend post in thier profile,,then when i came here..i feel so sad when i knew that fb is blocked by the chinese government.
