Net Nanny

China’s system of web censorship today blocked all the BBC’s news and radio websites.

While it’s worth remembering that most Chinese web users don’t bother to circumvent the Great Firewall internet restrictions (as folks have ample homegrown social and entertainment services), the WSJ reckons

Google Drive has just launched. Google Drive is blocked in China. Because we’re talking about the Great Firewall here, those two statements are not a kind of non sequitur. Google’s

Click to enlarge the TuneIn app screenshot. China’s web isolationism has taken a bizarre new turn with the American radio streaming app TuneIn admitting that it is censoring its own

Google has finally spoken out on the four-day long inaccessibility of Android’s Market and Gmail apps in China by saying that it was Google’s outage, not a Great Firewall block.

Google’s chronicle of woes in China has grown even larger, with the apparent Great Firewall block of Android’s Market and Gmail apps by authorities. The issues are intermittent now, but

Twitter.com now working freely in China, with this alternative server trick. Good news, everyone! Twitter is now working in China, without the need for a proxy or a VPN, via

Taobao, China’s biggest e-commerce platforms, is banning the sale of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and IP proxies on its popular C2C shopping site. Various VPNs and proxy servers are used

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphone users in China are reporting en masse that Microsoft’s app store, the Marketplace, is blocked or inaccessible in the country – making it impossible to