Writing in China

Since earlier this year China has been blocking more and more sites. I've already mentioned Blogspot, which makes my visiting other blogs awkward, but there are many more.

The other day I decided to compile a list. There's a lot!

Blogspot (blogger)
Blogcatalog
Typepad
Facebook
Bebo
Twitter
Youtube
Imageshack
Technorati

...are some of the more obvious ones.

There are also quite a lot of ad companies that I can't access, and it seems that every week there's another random blog that is blocked.

Since I started this blog (only about four months ago), the below (in no particular order) have been blocked:

Creative cafe, Caledonian-comment, IlovehateAmerica, SecondCup, RockersWife and Bangchoy.

All of these blogs I could access before. They've all slowly been restricted. (Over time).

As mentioned before, I can access them via proxies, but most proxies don't let through things such as Entrecard etc. I can also use a VPN program or TOR, but these are usually so slow they're not worth it.

So, if I don't return your drops etc, then it could be you're blocked by China.