CBC blocked
Since early February, the CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster, has been inaccessible to Internet users in much of China. Neither its English nor its French homepage load for us here in Beijing. Access to podcasts as well as audio and video streams are similarly affected. This seems an odd choice. Is the net nanny selecting English-language (and indeed French) public broadcasters at random? NPR's website and audio streams are fully accessible as are the BBC's (with the exception of its news and sport pages as well as its Chinese service). Australia's ABC also loads. Any ideas? Is this also the case elsewhere in China?
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I'm not exactly sure why the site is blocked, but I'm annoyed about it. I first experienced this on Feb. 1st, but thought it was a one-day thing. The next I heard about it was when Jesse Brown the host of CBC's Search Engine emailed me to confirm that the CBC's website was blocked in China.
No idea when it's going to be fixed.
J.
@John Guise:
Oddly enough, Jesse Brown also got in touch with me regarding the CBC site block. Hence, in part, the post. Rather annoyed about it myself.
Chris
Well, Canada is known for quite a few prominent Falun Gong proponents and was the origin for that story about organ harvesting in Dongbei a while back. So possibly CBC just carries too many articles relating to Falun Gong or other sensitive topics concerning China...