how to blog from china?

dirkgently · Member · May 14, 2007 at 7:46 pm
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Visiting a domain like wordpress.com is forbidden from China, it’s like a corporate firewall, all the surfer sees is a “you are forbidden” page. By using the Gladder extension the URL they are visiting is a proxy one, not wordpress.com even though they are seeing a wordpress.com blog on screen.
sulz · Member · May 14, 2007 at 11:25 pm
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she’s in china now. she e-mailed me for help. are the forums blocked from her as well? i gave her the url of this thread. lol
timethief · Member · May 14, 2007 at 11:27 pm
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Ahhh … so she is in China right now. As you gave her the forum url then we shall see if she can get through to the forum. If she can then maybe she can also access her blog {fingers crossed}.
dirkgently · Member · May 15, 2007 at 12:03 am
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Every subdomain of wordpress.com is blocked, which means no access to blogs, forums, faq’s or anything hosted at wordpress.com. This is the point of a proxy, the url is not “wordpress.com” it’s something like “proxyserver.net” which is not blocked. You need to be accessing the entire domain (including the forum with this help topic) via a proxy to see it. I’d love to be proved wrong and see how the forum is fine, but any blogs on the same domain are blocked.
chinaview · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:41 pm
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There are some very easy ways for your friend to access freely the outside world from China. The most popular 2 ways used by most of the people inside China today are by email and by installing client side proxy softwares.

For your friend, by installing client side proxy softwares should be the best choice.

Quite a few of this kind of softwares available, best of all, for free, and are the most popular among Chinese, developed by overseas Chinese experts and hi-tech organizations to help people inside China to get through the China firewall.

You can try the following 2 at least:

1. UltraSurf
Software download and User Guide are available at:
http://www.ultrareach.com/company/download.htm

2. Gpass:
Software download and User Guide are available at
http://www.gpass1.com/

If you still have problem, please let me know and I will sure to try to help out.
chinaview · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 6:07 pm
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Accually, the softwares I mentioned above are not only proxy softwares, they can also encrypt the datas between you and the server. So the Chinese Internet policeman ( which is said around tens of thousand of them hired by the government) will never find out what you are doing, chatting, e-mailing on the Internet !
larko · Member · Jun 28, 2007 at 9:47 pm
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@ thistimethisspace:

Just for the record, I am not a Chinese blogger, I just wrote a post about the Great Chinese Firewall. I do not know of any Chinese blogger who would be hosted in an Estonian server but I guess that option could work since my Estonian hosted blogs seem to be admissible in China.
thistimethisspace · Member · Jun 28, 2007 at 11:52 pm
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Thanks for clearing that up.
larko · Member · Jun 29, 2007 at 1:51 am
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My pleasure. ;-)

The option of hosting Chinese blogs in Estonia would of course be mainly theoretical. It could actually help out just a handful of people because if it were done in a large scale, the action would soon catch the eye of the Chinese censors and they would block large parts of Estonian web in no time.

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