DisOrientated - A Weblog by Philip Sen - Six Apart Reacts to Block

March 31, 2004

Six Apart Reacts to Block

More on Typepad and China - courtesy of The Guardian weblog:

March 30: Six Apart co-founder Mena Trott has emailed me to clarify what I was told on March 29 regarding Typepad in China. She says TypePad has 'heard reports from some Chinese TypePad users that they can not access their public weblogs but can access the TypePad application. We've heard from some weblog readers in China that they are able to access TypePad weblogs.' She goes on to explain that 'we are pretty confident that there is not a technical reason on our end for the problems some Chinese users are having accessing their sites', but 'frankly, because we are not in China, we can't be 100% sure of the exact cause and effects of the situation and to what degree our customers are being affected'.
She goes on to say: 'For the record, I did not state that the Chinese government was blocking TypePad sites. I did convey that it's not likely to be a technical problem on our end, but that doesn't not rule out technical problems in the routing of the sites in China.' Mena has placed a full copy of her message on her new blog, Mena's Corner.

Jane Perrone

Many thanks to Jane Perrone at The Guardian for her tenacity in pursuing the matter, but it sounds to me like Six Apart are reluctant to accept that this is a block.

I have to say that Mena Trott raises some fair points. Moreover, perspectives from abroad, where Internet censorship is not the issue it is here, are likely to be different. It may be that outside the PRC, China bloggers complaining of assumed censorship are simply seen as being paranoid, while there is indeed a simple explanation.

So if you ARE able to access any Typepad sites such as http://www.andresgentry.com , http://www.danwei.org or http://www.glutter.org from the mainland, please let me know via the comments section.

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Posted by: me at April 1, 2004 09:27 AM

Phil,

I said that privately to you but I feel that I should at least say this publically, we should not pursue this matter too much with six apart as they are a new company, and that they are in need of investors for the future, I think that having a potential market banned for their sites is a problem. Even if they do admit it, which they can't because they will NEVER get a confirmation from the government, it won't make any changes to the cause, we should concentrate on working with John and Adopt a blog instead and help those of us who are banned. We as a community should work out our own problems which we are doing. That's a more powerful statement.

Yan

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