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Ed Wenn

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They Can't See Us In China
« on: May 25, 2007, 01:40:24 PM »
We all know about how the Chinese government hides a significant amount of Internet content from their populace? Well, Filmwasters is right up there with the rest of the subversive websites. See image below.

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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2007, 03:29:24 PM »
Not sure whether to be flattered or not as mine is as well! Well that must explain why my stats have been low of late :)
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2007, 04:06:59 PM »
Dang! I too am blocked. Oh China what did I ever do to you! :D
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2007, 04:40:39 PM »
Just think of all the quality images they're missing out on....unless the whole thing's a scam set up by digital camera manufacturers. No film sites allowed through. 
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2007, 04:57:52 PM »
Well, to be fair, you can't move on this site for capitalist running dog groupthink.

(My site is blocked too.)
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2007, 05:56:50 PM »
They blocked my site too.
Feh--Digital lovers!
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2007, 07:09:05 PM »
another block on my site - are you sure every western film-based photography site isnt blocked ...?
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2007, 02:06:33 AM »
Like all about the mainland seeing is believing. Misinformation is more common than information. No doubt the firewall issue is true - the in-country ping process looks OK - but it serves others to propagate misinformation, as it does for the PRC govt to do the same. Until the revolution comes, we'll never know. Heck, I miss the place though sometimes...
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2007, 09:19:48 PM »
Yeah, both my sites (outofcontxt.com and billvaccaro.com) are blocked as well. I never knew I was that subversive! ;-)
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2007, 10:17:29 PM »
 from the inside of China, most of them can't see their own stuff either......

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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2007, 05:54:54 AM »
Quote from: astrobeck on May 26, 2007, 10:17:29 PM
from the inside of China, most of them can't see their own stuff either......

If anything here was true, this be it! Unless of course, you're connected.
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2007, 10:48:25 AM »
If the page is accurate it could well be that the firewall is set to allow specific sites rather than block specific sites. (i.e. Sites are blocked by default unless specifically allowed)

That's the way I did it when I ran an oppressive dictatorship...
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2007, 05:12:29 PM »
well, just because officially they can't see certain sites doesn't mean there's not a work around.  i believe anything on blogger was blocked in the past(and probably still is), but there were ways to see the content. there was some site that helped you do it or maybe some sort of program. but that's all i can remember about it.

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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2007, 07:19:16 PM »
a lot of blocked pages can be viewed through a google search. that's how i look at ebay and video game sites during downtime at work.
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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2007, 06:58:58 PM »
Mine is blocked as well
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catherine buca

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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2007, 11:13:24 AM »
Of course, it does say on that site that there may be technical issues why our urls are blocked, as opposed to any real eeeevil dictatorship reasons  :)

Flickr images have been blocked for a while now:

http://flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/41998/

(ooh, my first post here  8) )
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Kelly

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Re: They Can't See Us In China
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2007, 03:46:18 AM »
Aw, I wanted to see if mine was blocked, but I can't even load the site!
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