If I remember correctly then they once banned wikipedia or maybe blogger and banning big and informative sites is really crazy !!
China has a large list of banned sites with specific content.. http://greatfirewallofchina.org/ see if your banned.. a few of my sites are banned there because of their content, and im sure of this because of the content not because of that tool.
Actually the tool is probably not working properly. It is reporting my sites as banned but I know they are not banned. It is probably a glitch.
i hat government when they do that not only in chain most arab counties too, why doesn't they ban the whole internet so people feel comfortable and stop using the internet
Chinese govt. represents the public. so this decision also must have been supported by the people over there, since they have become so independent in terms of manufacturing n all they dont seem to feel the need of other countries in internet nor in real life
I don't know where you are all getting your information, but Google has not been blocked in China today or yesterday. Here in the heartland of China, Google has been accessible without problem. There have been no redirects to Baidu when I have accessed Google during the past 48 hours. Google China and US Google work fine for me, as have Yahoo and most of the other major search engines. The only redirects to Baidu I encountered were for Altavista and Babelfish. Both Altavista and Babelfish are once again accessible from my location without need of a proxy. Perhaps these redirects are location specific, in major cities. As I have said, I only encountered temporary redirects with Altavista and Babelfish for about 12 hours. Both services are once again available without redirects to Baidu. The Chinatattler
From the news. news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=4718e7c1f993e55d&ei=uO8YR76MOo3UqQPxmpDNBA&url=http%3A//www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9799973-7.html%3Ftag%3Dnefd.only&cid=1122330985 news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-2&fp=4718e7c1f993e55d&ei=uO8YR76MOo3UqQPxmpDNBA&url=http%3A//www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml%3FarticleID%3D202404418%26subSection%3DGlobal&cid=1122330985 news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-3&fp=4718e7c1f993e55d&ei=uO8YR76MOo3UqQPxmpDNBA&url=http%3A//www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/18/china_hijacks_google_microsoft_yahoo_traffic/&cid=1122330985 news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/4-0&fp=4718e7c1f993e55d&ei=uO8YR76MOo3UqQPxmpDNBA&url=http%3A//technocrat.net/d/2007/10/18/28997&cid=1121955523 news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/7-0&fp=4718e7c1f993e55d&ei=uO8YR76MOo3UqQPxmpDNBA&url=http%3A//www.rsf.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D24087&cid=0 It appears from the last article that Google is "partially" blocked?
A bit of a dispute here in regards to the extend of Chinese blocking. I know from British friend who is currently living in China that the extent of the "Great Firewall" is far far more than just "sensitive" subjects and that the effect of their internet censorship is to slash whole layers away from the internet in the pursuit of paranoid control. Basically, there aren't many Western websites available to the ordinary Chinese user, whether political or not.