Users have not be able to access Blogger inside China since 17th of May. It seems that this censorship measure from the Chinese government is related to the day (4th of June, 2009) when the world will mark the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident.
Here are some methods to overcome censorship and be able to access Blogger blogs from China:
- Use Google Translator – Open Google Translator, type the address of the blogspot blog you want to read and select Chinese to English from the language drop-down.
- Use web proxies – Find a web proxy that is not blocked, type in the blog name and it should work.
- Use free hide IP tools like: Hotspot Shield or Ultrasurf.
- Use RSS Readers – Open any news aggregator like Google Reader and subscribe to the blogger blog rss by typing xxx.blogspot.com/rss.xml or xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml in the URL field. Then you’ll the content because it si served from the feed server cache, not from Blogger’s server.
- Use Email Services – Go to FeedBurner, type in the blog address and after you verify your subscription you’ll get the posts by email.
An approach that does not seem to work is the one trying to access Google cache. The cache is also blocked in China.
Please let me know if you find out about other ways to access restricted content in China.
[Via Digital Inspiration]
2 Comments
What’s the story with proxy.pac? Does anyone know of a new code to use? This is ridiculous already- youtube, Wikipedia, all my blogger sites (which I made for my classes and now are inaccessible) and I appear to be the only one who can’t access hotmail…
Excellent write up, I will bookmark this in my Clipmarks account. Have a great evening.