Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Freedom of the Blogsphere
Sad to say the curtains have come down again on Blogspot.com in China. It is no longer available to China based readers so I am indebted again to my online mentor, Dr John Ray of Dissecting Leftism (his mirror here) for mirroring this site here.
I don't think it is due to subversive activities online, I rather tend to believe it is the officials' reaction to the immature and often racist ravings of the newly graduated (mostly American) teachers who come here for a 'working holiday' and find they don't like work and certainly can't put up with levels of comfort below luxury despite the usually generous and overwhelming Chinese hospitality. So they close it down for a while. But usually the logic of keeping it open prevails and it is freed again. Let's hope so.
Sad to say the curtains have come down again on Blogspot.com in China. It is no longer available to China based readers so I am indebted again to my online mentor, Dr John Ray of Dissecting Leftism (his mirror here) for mirroring this site here.
I don't think it is due to subversive activities online, I rather tend to believe it is the officials' reaction to the immature and often racist ravings of the newly graduated (mostly American) teachers who come here for a 'working holiday' and find they don't like work and certainly can't put up with levels of comfort below luxury despite the usually generous and overwhelming Chinese hospitality. So they close it down for a while. But usually the logic of keeping it open prevails and it is freed again. Let's hope so.
