China bans INQ and Kave
THE Glorious People's Republic of China appears to have shut the INQ and its message board, the Kave, out of the country in a move to protect its citizens from our evil ways.
Punters living in Hong Kong have been reporting to the Kave that they cannot get either the INQ or the Kave and it seems that the authorities have shut us out of the great Firewall of China.
We have not been told that we have been naughty or nice by the Chinese so we cannot confirm this.
The reader in question is getting around the ban by using a proxy which he
thinks might work for another couple of weeks. He says his mates also have not
been able to get in for the last five days.
If this is the case then it means that the Glorious People's Republic actually
considers a technical magazine like ours subversive and attempting to bring down
the government. Either that or they are worried about Charlie's porn
references.
The World Wide Wibble in China is being purged more times than Stalin's inner sanctum lately as the authorities clamp down before the Olympics.
We have no idea why they would focus on us, but then again we have no idea why anyone would censor anything.
Of course it would not be the first time that Kave members or their mates have got the wrong end of the stick so if any of our Chinese readers can see us, please get in touch.
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While I won't be surprised if it actually happens, if the info comes from Hong Kong, it's bogus. Hong Kong is not affected by the Great Firewall, and whoever couldn't get on probably just had a problem with their ISP.
May be there is a chinese technical magazine and the government wants to cut competitors....
Maybe they thought you were the "Enquirer" - where Enquiring minds want to know...

Or maybe the just don't like your slant on things.
I am in China , and I am here viewing the the INQUIRER normally and nothing abnormal happened .
I am a chinese and I am quite sure I am browsing INQ.
well, i am an analyst and i have no issue at all in this part of the world accessing the INQ. i visit it almost daily. 

i believe the person who aint able to access should inform the broadband company. may be some tech glitch. and secondly i never seen any site blocked in HK since i travel so freq there. 

happy new year to all :)
my friend in Shanghai just viewed www.theinquirer.net without proxy................
As a vacationer in Guangzhou, China and a few hours from Hong Kong, all I can say is that the Inq works for me on the 26th floor of a certain plaza off a "borrowed" unsecure wireless network.
hi,

i'd just like to say hong kong (and macau and taiwan, if you must), unlike the rest of china, is not behind the great firewall of china. there could be a zillion of reasons why that bloke can't get to inquirer, but it's definitely not the great firewall of china.

unless my laptop knows how to automatically finds a loophole in the firewall, i have no problem whatsoever going to any websites anywhere in the cyberspace.

cassio @ HK