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GFW Blocks Article on GFW?

Posted on October 30, 2007 by davesgonechina

Wired Magazine has a story by Oliver August about his experiences with Chinese surveillance. While investigating the story of Lai Changxing, China’s most wanted man, August was detained in Fujian. He also came back to his office one day to find cables on his computer rearranged, and a piece of paper with his address written in unfamiliar handwriting. This comes on the heels of the Time China blog’s Bill Powell mentioning that a friend working for a metal bending company found a cell phone modified into a tracking device attached to the bottom of his car.

I’m having some difficulty pulling up this particular article on Wired without a proxy, while the rest of Wired loads fine. Anybody else have a problem?

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2 thoughts on “GFW Blocks Article on GFW?”

  1. Chris says:
    May 24, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    I read the first page sans proxy, then couldn’t load the second and got a reset when I tried to reload the first. It sat in my browser window for a while before I read it, so I can’t say exactly when the block came down, but it was available when I first opened it. I’m getting an immediate server reset now.

    Interesting piece.

  2. Vincent says:
    May 24, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    I had to summon some proxy magic to see the page. Now that I’m halfway through it, I can speculate, based on knowledge I just learned, that there is a little gnome watching YOU watch this particular page on the internet. He wears a PSB outfit,and after the page loads a certain amount, he turns some dials and turns off the series of tubes, tantalizing you with only a piece of the pie.

    At least, that’s my speculation on why every time I reload this page it seems to display a different amount of text before giving up. ???!

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