asking for a friend. i've read the 3 threads found from the search about blogging in china, but i don't see a particular solution. is it possible for my friend to blog from china?
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Yes and no because the government is blocking bloggers
http://www.chinabloglist.org/ The China Blog List (CBL) is a collection of links to English language weblogs focused on China. The CBL plays an important role in providing the rest of the world with convenient access to firsthand accounts and independent views of China.
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/china-blocks-popular-blogging-site-livejournal/
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/china-looks-to-rein-in-bloggers/
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-04-25-voa15.cfm -
Isn't that a list of blog 'about' china, not from China (per se)?
Trent
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so that means she can't blog via wp from china at all? i did read something about hiding behind proxies and stuff in the thread. does that work?
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Have you checked the forum search box for threads? I found this http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=10698
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i've read the 3 threads found from the search about blogging in china
yeap.
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As far as we can tell there are problems and at least one wp blogger alleges it cannot be done. If you want to confirm I guess you can contact staff tomorrow.
You can also search blogs with google and turn up lots of posts. If you use site:wordpress.com along with the search terms you will find posts. It seems some Chinese bloggers are using Estonian servers http://podcastjunky.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/china-planning-new-rules-for-bloggers-podcasters/
http://larko.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/great-firewall-of-china/ -
how can someone be on an estonian server if they're blogging from china? *flummoxed*
yes, i'm going to contact staff asap.
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Not trying to support other blog services, but if China blocks wordpress.com, there might be other WPMU installs or even one of the other services (Vox or others) that China might not be blocking. Just a thought anyways?
Trent
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but she already has a blog in wp.com that she wants to use. i could suggest that to her, though.
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Well, if she has Windows 2000 or something newer, she could use anonymizer.com to hide; it costs money, but there's a free trial period. That might work.
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If she already has an ISP and a wordpress.com blog and can presumably post to it then I seem to have missed something here. What's the problem? All she needs is a cell phone to post through the mobile version of wordpress http://m.wordpress.com
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One time I think I heard go to Google Translation which can somehow bypass the filters.
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I think that's the workaround. I remember there was one, and it was really simple, but I didn't remember what it was. Pretty sure that's it though.
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http://tor.eff.org/
might work. I have had the occasional email saying it's possible but many more that we are blocked. -
There is a way. The gladder (G(reat) ladder) extension for Firefox is a proxy that gets you over country wide firewalls. It's been designed for bloggers in China although it works with surfing in general from anywhere. The "banned domains" ie "the ones where the people speak their mind rather than party doctrine" are already listed, wordpress.com is one, along with a few other blogging sites. You can add your own easiy enough.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2864
I'd say that anyone in China who does blog, does so knowing they may be caught by the state. The extension is there for those who want it.....and yes, it works, I've tried it. It does look strange to be surfing your own blog with a different URL.
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thanks for all the replies guys. i'll relay them to my friend.
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@sulz
As your friend already has a wordpress.com blog wouldn't it be better for her to be directly involved in the forum discussion here, rather than relying on second-hand communication? -
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Most likely sulz's friend can't even get to wp.com with the blocking China does.
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Although I could be wrong, it's my impression that she's not in China presently and that's why I asked the question above.
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Visiting a domain like wordpress.com is forbidden from China, it's like a corporate firewall, all the surfer sees is a "you are forbidden" page. By using the Gladder extension the URL they are visiting is a proxy one, not wordpress.com even though they are seeing a wordpress.com blog on screen.
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she's in china now. she e-mailed me for help. are the forums blocked from her as well? i gave her the url of this thread. lol
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Ahhh ... so she is in China right now. As you gave her the forum url then we shall see if she can get through to the forum. If she can then maybe she can also access her blog {fingers crossed}.
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Every subdomain of wordpress.com is blocked, which means no access to blogs, forums, faq's or anything hosted at wordpress.com. This is the point of a proxy, the url is not "wordpress.com" it's something like "proxyserver.net" which is not blocked. You need to be accessing the entire domain (including the forum with this help topic) via a proxy to see it. I'd love to be proved wrong and see how the forum is fine, but any blogs on the same domain are blocked.
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There are some very easy ways for your friend to access freely the outside world from China. The most popular 2 ways used by most of the people inside China today are by email and by installing client side proxy softwares.
For your friend, by installing client side proxy softwares should be the best choice.
Quite a few of this kind of softwares available, best of all, for free, and are the most popular among Chinese, developed by overseas Chinese experts and hi-tech organizations to help people inside China to get through the China firewall.
You can try the following 2 at least:
1. UltraSurf
Software download and User Guide are available at:
http://www.ultrareach.com/company/download.htm2. Gpass:
Software download and User Guide are available at
http://www.gpass1.com/If you still have problem, please let me know and I will sure to try to help out.
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Accually, the softwares I mentioned above are not only proxy softwares, they can also encrypt the datas between you and the server. So the Chinese Internet policeman ( which is said around tens of thousand of them hired by the government) will never find out what you are doing, chatting, e-mailing on the Internet !
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@ thistimethisspace:
Just for the record, I am not a Chinese blogger, I just wrote a post about the Great Chinese Firewall. I do not know of any Chinese blogger who would be hosted in an Estonian server but I guess that option could work since my Estonian hosted blogs seem to be admissible in China.
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Thanks for clearing that up.
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My pleasure. ;-)
The option of hosting Chinese blogs in Estonia would of course be mainly theoretical. It could actually help out just a handful of people because if it were done in a large scale, the action would soon catch the eye of the Chinese censors and they would block large parts of Estonian web in no time.
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