By Lorimer Wilson
Why should I have been concerned about whether or not my site was one of those being censored by the authorities there? Well, I spent amonth in China travelling extensively throughout the country to get an on-the-ground first hand and in-depth understanding as to the health of its current economy and its prospects for the future. Since then a number of posts on my site have not presented as favourable a view of the country as the powers to be there might appreciate. With 137 million potential readers (granted not all of them can read English!) at stake, I often wondered if the information in such articles was being censored. Now I know thanks to greatfirewallofchina.org. Just type in the site you are curious about and, in seconds, you’ll know if it is blocked in any of the districts of mainland China assessed (i.e. Beijing, Shenzen, Heilongjiang & Yuannan Provincesand Inner Mongolia). Incidentally, neither TalkMarkets nor munKNEE.com (my site) are being blocked in any of the districts mentioned.
Many financial internet sites are censored (i.e. access is blocked) in mainland China and I have often wondered if my popular financial site, munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!) was one of them let alone all those other much more provocative sites out there. If you are curious as to whether or not any of the sites you visit are, in fact, censored in mainland China then check out the following site where you can find out immediately.
By GreatFireWallOfChina.org
The Aim of greatfirewallofchina.org is to be a watchdog and keep track of which, and how many or how many times, sites are censored. They also help to keep the censorship transparent as each blocked website is automatically added to the great firewall on their homepage.
How it works: We’ve opened a website in China and route your url request on greatfirewallofchina.org through to our server in China. The server in China opens the url and the result is sent back. Our testing is only based on one server in one location in China. We have different backup servers in different locations in China in case one might go down. Other locations and other servers may give you different access to the various websites.
