Sun 29 Apr 2007
Apparently, according to The Great Firewall of China, this blog is blocked in the world’s largest nation. Could be a technical thing, could be that I use the “f” word, or maybe that I use the “g” word.
Hat tip to Arthur_Vandelay.
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April 30th, 2007 at 00:45
Apparently there’s a banner you can add to your blog that reads “Banned in Red China”–I’ve no idea how to install it, however.
May 1st, 2007 at 09:02
mine is too! i don’t use the ‘f’ word on the blog, so it must be the naughty ‘g’ word.
May 1st, 2007 at 13:55
You guys both know you should be banned everywhere, you heretics you…
May 1st, 2007 at 14:00
Arthur, just go to the layout page on you blogger account, and go to where you can edit the design script. Then copy and paste the banner code under where it says <body>. I think that’s how it works.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:13
The owner of the English-language bookshop in Hanoi said that all it needed to have a book banned in Vietnam was to have any variant of the g word on its cover — The Buddha of Suburbia, The Poisonwood Bible were two that she mentioned. Assuming the Chinese censors are of a similar mind, I’d bet oin the G word as well. (She did say that anythign with “Vietnam” in the title, including cook books, was also banned, so you may have inadvertently mentioned porcelain …)
May 3rd, 2007 at 22:20
Jonathan, that’s full on. But then again, banning books may be a good thing. After all, our kids really need to spend more time watching television, and being reintroduced to the magic of not reading…