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Wikipedia totoally blocked in China

From Shizhao, a wipipedian from Wikipedia Chinese edition, "All Wikipedia sites were blocked (in China), I proved this via router tracking. The requests to this sites can't even go through Beijing's boundary. It's time to report this to some departments".

I don't know what "departments" Wikipedian should report, and by what reason. It's not like 3/11 incident(blogbus.com, blogcn.com were all blocked by local police), Wikipedia is an open project ran by open team. Blogbus can argue to local Commujnist Party's propaganda department that it's an commerical service that will affect over 200,000 users(all blog owners). However, Wikipedia can't.



I welcomed a HSBC private bank delegate this Tuesday in Shanghai. After that, I composed a news press for my business on this event. However, I can't find any reference information about HSBC prviate bank besides their own web site. Thus I turned to Wikipedia. You know, it's not accessible from public internet. I have to find a proxy server to get that page. I know it's just a click in a open internet world, but now i have to hate the knowledge blocker, it's their own fault.

Wikipedia is also an important grassroots publishing method. It also reflects free speech in a free culture, even it's more important from the perspective of grassroots collective intelligence genre. There is no free culture at all in China. If a baby was killed, no one would be sad except their parents.

I know Shizhao and his team is sad enough, take care.