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Since well before the Olympics actually. I was in China when 9/11 happened and for a brief period of time they opened access to a large number of previously bl
by imron 9y ago
Since well before the Olympics actually. I was in China when 9/11 happened and for a brief period of time they opened access to a large number of previously blocked foreign news sites so that people could read what was happening.
- l5870uoo9y 9y agoThe have periodically been discussions about "opening up" in China. Fore-instance the party where split in the decision to crack down on the Falun Gong movement who also included many party members. Likewise were there some opposition to the violent crack down on Tiananmen square. Hardliners seems to win.
- baybal2 9y agoIt is a trick, and old Chinese trick. You call out to your enemies to come for negotiations, and then kill them
- gcb0 9y agowhy would people be checking a news site that was previously blocked? do you go everyday "oh, let me try cnn.com... oh, still blocked. let's try tomorrow?"
- Belphemur 9y agoI guess it's for the tourist that where in China when it happened.
- gpvos 9y agoYou might follow a link from somewhere?
- imron 9y agoWell, first of all, it's not every day that a news event on the scale of 9/11 happens. As for how I discovered they were unblocked, I got a phone call from my Mum early in the morning after the attack (the attack happened during the Chinese night time) and went in to the office (which had the only available internet access), and one of my colleagues told me that the bbc and nytimes were no longer blocked. Not sure how he found out they were unblocked, but he'd been there most of the night. Then once you know one is unblocked you try them all :-)