The Chinese Government Doesn’t Want You To Read This

The Chinese government is well known for censoring its citizens’ access to the World Wide Web. Now you can run a test to see if your website is blocked in China, thanks to the fine folks at greatfirewallofchina.org.

Naturally, I had to check if they’re blocking windypundit.com. The site is a little slow, so it took a while to find out…

They’re blocking me.

Wow.

There could be technical reasons why they’re blocking me. Windpundit.com is served to the web through a shared hosting service from HostingMatters, meaning there are many other web sites on the same server and sharing the same IP address. It’s possible they’re blocking someone else on the same server.

I prefer to think that someone in the Chinese government doesn’t want people to read what I have to say. I like the idea that tyrants think I’m their enemy. I like to think they’re right.

(Hat tip: Kip)