don't know why, but for some reason or another, the authorities have
decided to crack down on internet usage. they've got something like
50,000 volunteers who surf the web looking for sites to block, and there's
no apparent method to the blocklistings.
sometimes bbc is up, sometimes down. two weeks ago, youtube was blocked,
last week up for a day or two, then off again. google sometimes is blocked.
and today, hotmail is blocked, my insurance website is blocked, my credit
card is blocked, loads and loads of proxies as well. this sucks. i'm tempted
to say screw this and move to thighland.
thing is, they're not really trying to censor anything. there's always a way
around the firewall. they block the old proxies, new ones take their place, but
takes time. they just want to make it so frustrating that regular folks will
automatically go to the approved default sites. but then we have the additional
problem of proxy owners banning chinese ip addresses.
and the strange thing.....they don't block porn. not that i would ever, i
mean, well, i was just testing, umm, that ipr thingy, and, um, oh, look
over there, a butterfly!
decided to crack down on internet usage. they've got something like
50,000 volunteers who surf the web looking for sites to block, and there's
no apparent method to the blocklistings.
sometimes bbc is up, sometimes down. two weeks ago, youtube was blocked,
last week up for a day or two, then off again. google sometimes is blocked.
and today, hotmail is blocked, my insurance website is blocked, my credit
card is blocked, loads and loads of proxies as well. this sucks. i'm tempted
to say screw this and move to thighland.
thing is, they're not really trying to censor anything. there's always a way
around the firewall. they block the old proxies, new ones take their place, but
takes time. they just want to make it so frustrating that regular folks will
automatically go to the approved default sites. but then we have the additional
problem of proxy owners banning chinese ip addresses.
and the strange thing.....they don't block porn. not that i would ever, i
mean, well, i was just testing, umm, that ipr thingy, and, um, oh, look
over there, a butterfly!
Thailand might not be bad either.
