how to blog from china?
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asking for a friend. i’ve read the 3 threads found from the search about blogging in china, but i don’t see a particular solution. is it possible for my friend to blog from china?
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Yes and no because the government is blocking bloggers
http://www.chinabloglist.org/ The China Blog List (CBL) is a collection of links to English language weblogs focused on China. The CBL plays an important role in providing the rest of the world with convenient access to firsthand accounts and independent views of China.
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/china-blocks-popular-blogging-site-livejournal/
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/china-looks-to-rein-in-bloggers/
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-04-25-voa15.cfm -
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so that means she can’t blog via wp from china at all? i did read something about hiding behind proxies and stuff in the thread. does that work?
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Have you checked the forum search box for threads? I found this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=10698
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As far as we can tell there are problems and at least one wp blogger alleges it cannot be done. If you want to confirm I guess you can contact staff tomorrow.
You can also search blogs with google and turn up lots of posts. If you use site:wordpress.com along with the search terms you will find posts. It seems some Chinese bloggers are using Estonian servers http://podcastjunky.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/china-planning-new-rules-for-bloggers-podcasters/
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how can someone be on an estonian server if they’re blogging from china? *flummoxed*
yes, i’m going to contact staff asap.
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Not trying to support other blog services, but if China blocks wordpress.com, there might be other WPMU installs or even one of the other services (Vox or others) that China might not be blocking. Just a thought anyways?
Trent
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but she already has a blog in wp.com that she wants to use. i could suggest that to her, though.
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Well, if she has Windows 2000 or something newer, she could use anonymizer.com to hide; it costs money, but there’s a free trial period. That might work.
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If she already has an ISP and a wordpress.com blog and can presumably post to it then I seem to have missed something here. What’s the problem? All she needs is a cell phone to post through the mobile version of wordpress http://m.wordpress.com
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I think that’s the workaround. I remember there was one, and it was really simple, but I didn’t remember what it was. Pretty sure that’s it though.
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http://tor.eff.org/
might work. I have had the occasional email saying it’s possible but many more that we are blocked. -
There is a way. The gladder (G(reat) ladder) extension for Firefox is a proxy that gets you over country wide firewalls. It’s been designed for bloggers in China although it works with surfing in general from anywhere. The “banned domains” ie “the ones where the people speak their mind rather than party doctrine” are already listed, wordpress.com is one, along with a few other blogging sites. You can add your own easiy enough.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2864
I’d say that anyone in China who does blog, does so knowing they may be caught by the state. The extension is there for those who want it…..and yes, it works, I’ve tried it. It does look strange to be surfing your own blog with a different URL.
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Although I could be wrong, it’s my impression that she’s not in China presently and that’s why I asked the question above.
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