This morning I awoke to a great surprise: The Huffington Post was no longer accessible. Blocked. Barred. Banned. Is this just me?
I’ve noticed a large increase in the amount of random shit being blocked over the last day or two: The Colbert Report is completely inaccessible, The Daily Show’s “Full Episode” does not load (the regular clips do), and last night the page to download Firefox’s new browser was blocked. That’s just to name a few. A proxy server will work for the Huffington Post, but videos cannot be played through a proxy. So, sorry to say, I am S.O.L. when it comes to the Colbert Report.
This all makes me highly suspicious that something is going on, or is about to, in China that they don’t want us to know about. Usually unspeakable horrors surround the knee-jerk capricious blockings. Or perhaps they are just finally adding some maintenance to their world-renowned Great Firewall.
Tags: censorship, China, Internet blocking, Mozilla Firefox, the Colbert Report, the Daily Show, the Great Firewall of China, the Huffington Post
