The biggest ever block on blog in China
Blogbus.com, one of the biggest blogging service in China, has been ordered to shut down it’s service from noon today. Based in Henan province, blogbus.com now serves over 15,000 bloggers in China.
It’s the annual season that China’s Parlianment held session in Beijing. So government conduct more close survillience on Internet remarks and activities. Many columns and online bulletin board related on social problems in some portals has been withdrawed weeks before the session. Also the net police has blocked many foriegn news site afterDr.Jiang called the Communist Party to admit the mistake in 6/4, 1989.
Now the blogsphere is the newest target. The best way of surviving here is “shut up” or say “we are living in a liberal country”.
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updates: Hengge, the owner of blogbus.com is now appealing to re-open his site. However, he doesn’t know how long it will take.
Also, Joi’s quote and other’s comments on his high-traffic blog.
Other Chinese bloggers reported this incident: cnblog.org, topku, 6e, ibuzzo, sealife, etc. from Grassland, the Chinese blog/RSS search engine.
Seems no more related memes in Feedster, yet.
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update 2: Jianshuo blogged this news. He also said, “As I posted before, My Site Remains Illegal in China. Don’t be surprised if this site post similar notice one day (or disappear with no notice). “. Same situation to my site.
Seems no paper media report this news, yet.