Good news: The Great Fire Wall comes down (Guardian)

... Just a week ago, it was impossible to connect to Chinese Wikipedia or the the Chinese BBC News site via a public ISP in China. Your browser either didn't respond or displayed an error message telling you that it couldn't connect to the site. What happened? They were blocked by the Great Fire Wall. Why? Because they were regarded as "dangerous sites... harmful information intending to demonise China and its people". The Chinese authorities think their people need no more information than what the official news agency feeds them. Or rather, they dare not allow them to find out more.

But things are changing. At the beginning of August, these sites suddenly became available to internet users in China. ...

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/10/censorship.china?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews


I appreciate this and hope it will last.