dcm writes "As U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson prepares to introduce a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission to censure the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) government for increasing "repression of its people using the Internet, democratic dialogue, religious expression," the regime continues to block discourse.Yesterday (March 26)China began blocking access to Typepad, a paid web log hosting service in San Mateo, California. The communist regime previously blocked access to blogspot, Blogger's free hosting site. Bloggers have begun a solidarity campaign, turning their pages black. Some plan to keep them that way for forty days - until World Press Freedom Day, May 3rd. Yan Sham-Shackleton filed this report on Glutter. Radio Free China's newsfeed picked up the report, also. According to Sham-Shackleton, "Last week saw two hosting services within China, blogbus and blogscn banned. After shutting down forums and message boards within the country, itÂ’s now using blocking software to stop information from leaking into the county via personal sites, an increasingly vibrant China internet community, and a place where users are slipping in banned information. Some sites in the blogging community are turning black in protest of this event while others are reporting the incident."
On a related note, those in the mainland who want to surf anonymously might want to try unipeak's english or chinese pages as a launch point while they can still access them ."
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