Typepad Banned in China!!!!

GLUTTER IS SADDENNED AND ANGERED TO HAVE TO ANNOUNCE ALL TYPEPAD SITES HAVE BEEN BANNED IN CHINA.

Pketh asked if typepad is banned in China, as a friend of his can no longer get into his site. Can someone tell us? I guess you will either not be able to see this if it is, unless you’re using some system of proxies already. If you can read this and have access to connections that are government controlled can you please check for us?

China has been systematically shutting down blog servers within the country in the last weeks as a means to tighten up information. So far foreign blog servers has avoided detection. Is this the beginning of even more vigilant crackdown of information?

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

3 thoughts on “Typepad Banned in China!!!!

  1. Go get ’em, Glutter! Sleek black design that says you mean business!
    Of course, I’d join you in making a stand, but I’ve just finished redesigning my site with nifty new colour scheme that I’m rather proud of.

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  2. TypePad banned in China

    Lashlar feels particularly uncomfortable. He is breaking a personal moratorium on the writing of anything overtly political, a moratorium issued on the 9th of March 2003 and followed without exception since then. He intends that this will be the only…

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