Monday, September 3, 2007

How to visit blogs that are banned

Today I received an email from Wei who just returned to China, he asked if there are any ways to access Blogspot blogs and xanga. As usual, I replied him with my answers and his problem were solved.

Considering that many foreigners (we prefer to call them "Laowai" for short) know little about China's internet censorship, I feel it's necessary to write a post here to tell everybody how to visit banned blogs.

My solutions:
  1. Use http://www.pkblogs.com/ , it's a special web-based proxy designed for blogspot blogs
  2. Use Google Reader or Bloglines or other available foreign online RSS Readers, they can automatically load recent posts from most blogs
  3. Use web-based proxies listed on this page or from this result, if everything goes well you should be able to read and comment
  4. Firefox users may try this method, I'm not sure whether it's still working though.
  5. Install proxy software, like Freegate and Tor . According to my experience, they are very slow in scanning alternative IPs and loading websites...
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