The Great Firewall

So both Budge and Paul's blogs are illegal in China.
Mine is too. So says this little site here.

Which got me to thinking . . . just what does get through the Great Firewall? Let's try a few.

Starting simple: http://www.google.com/
Hmmm. This takes a while . . . not sure I can be bothered doing too many of these. And . . . . No! "Your URL is blocked!"
No big surprise there.

Although I'm not sure the exclamation mark is necessarily required. It's almost like they're pleased.

What about the Chinese version? http://www.google.cn/
That's blocked too? I'm getting suspicious now.

Let's have some fun with http://www.theonion.com/
Hooray! Success! They need to be careful with this one, though, especially after this little debacle.

Let's try some serious(ish) media. http://www.ten.com.au
Nope. Must be all the boobies and turkey slapping in Big Brother.
Or Rove.

One last try. I'm getting bored. What about that bastion of Aussie left-wingism . . . http://www.abc.net.au/ ?

Yes. Available. Well, it's nice to know that for all the restrictions, our Chinese comrades can still see Your ABC.

And http://www.fox.com.
Go figure.