The Great Firewall of China
Thursday March 1, 2007
Get Religion directs you to a website where you can see if your favorite websites are blocked by the Chinese gummint. Turns out Beliefnet.com doesn't make it past the Chi-com velvet rope. Will no one stand up for the English-speaking...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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what? they can't read about the amazingly spiritual mortal man whom we now commonly call Jesus? they can't read about how God is surely far greater than what the Bible says? they can't read about how the Bible has some great spiritual value mixed in with many blasphemous opinions of spiritually unevolved ancient men? no... say it isn't so...
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faith hope love joy peace to all in China and everywhere else...
Censorship is just not the issue over here in Eastasia that it is back home in Oceania. I'm an American in South, not North, Korea. A few years ago, all blogspot.com sites, including mine, were banned here for about a month. Why? Some blogger had posted a video of the beheading of Korean hostage Kim Sun-il. No one raised a peep except the expats.
When I test Beliefnet, it says that the website is available. At least right this second it is available. And if all else fails, Pandagon.net passed the test when I tried. So even if they can't read this, they can still read my buddy Amanda Marcotte!
Well it is sounds like communism and religion have at least one thing in common: The desire to ban. :)
Another reason not to enter a Walmart.
I don't know about Guangzhou, but I am reading it from Shanghai right now. Although it is not necessary to view your site, there are several ways around the firewall.
well... that's "good news"... that the Chinese can have access to commentary about the great spiritual value of the Christian Myths as they point in the general direction of the Reality of God... and access to all the other Myths as well...
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faith hope love joy peace patience...
What they said. I'm in Shanghai as well.
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