Anyone netizen living in China for a while will encounter the Great FireWall of China. Not visible from space like its namesake counterpart, it in fact renders many websites invisible.
The Great Firewall, for the unwared, basically blocks out websites that are deem not suitable for fellow comrades’ consumption. If some of your favourite sites are not accessible, and you know they are not down, very likely the Great Firewall is at work.
Like it or not, Singapore has its own version of proxy filter so I’m no stranger to such governmental guidance. Therefore those looking for rant about freedom of speech will be disappointed.
Still it is a rant about not able to access my favourite sites. For example, useful sites like Wikipedia and dmoz are frequently blocked and so are some open source projects. For the longest time I know that phpmyadmin and Webmin are blocked but had since been liberated. It is anyone guess what the actual filtering criterias are. On the other hand, Geocities and Blogspot are forever blocked and is easy to see why.
While the Great Wall had stood for thousands years, lets hope the Great Firewall crumbles in time to come.
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