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Response to AlwaysOnNetwork's blocking in China

David included me in their dicussion on AON's being blocked by China. My comments:

As I know from recent policies( you never see the policies in public, but it does exist), more foreign publishing sites will be blocked after China's gov emphasized that internet is an important media to
propaganda Cummunist Party's voices.

I think AO is on the traffic growing stage, and noticed by the Great
Firewall(a country-wide survillance system behind Internet
infrastructure). Such sites would be listed into GF's blocking list(a
general list). Once a site is put it the list, it's very diffult to be
released. Many blog hosting sites met such situation eventually.

Anyway I can still access AO's site via proxy, it's not in the
"totally blocked site" list I guess. To some human rights/democracy
related sites(VOA for example), even proxy can't help. :(

Anyway, I can sometimes try those blocked sites using url extention like this. With those tools, we can sometimes be very happy to see the pages appear from blocking. People outside China won't understand the happiness so much...