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UPDATE (Dec. 28): The earthquake that disrupted internet access in Korea, Taiwan and parts of China may have caused the block reported below. This article describes the damage to undersea cables in detail, stating that "China Telecom, one of the mainland's main telecommunication and broadband service providers, said that at least six of its cables in the sea area 15 kilometers south of Taiwan had been cut, affecting telecommunications between the mainland and Taiwan, U.S. and Europe."

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Reports from Chinese subscribers confirm that this weblog is no longer accessible in several of China's largest cities. Well over a thousand readers visit this site from China daily. Is the block uniform throughout the country?

Readers in China who receive this post in their e-mail are kindly asked to email in reply their physical location and whether the weblog or an error message displays.

We are now among the list of sites considered too sensitive or offensive for viewing within the Golden Shield (金盾), including the Voice of America, the BBC and several thousand others.

Tools for circumventing blocked access include:

* Freenet

* Psiphon

* The Google Mirror, here or here.

Other methods may work -- please comment directly to this post if you know of any.