Entertainment For Lively Minds
China
Posted by chrisf on 13 June 2011 - 10:54am.
I'm currently in China on a business trip and was trying to access the Word site - all I get is a page with a message along the lines of "Forbidden - you don't have permission to access the server".
I can log into the Torygraph, Guardian etc websites okay. So I suspect this is being blocked at Word Towers end rather than a China government block (and anyway, unless Bob Dylan really upset them, I didn't think debates on beards, Richard Thompson et al were likely to cause too much alarm in Beijing...)
I can log in if I go via a UK proxy site (hence being able to post this message).
There's a couple of billion potential subscribers here that you are missing out on.......
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It's blocked for good reason
In that we were getting several hundred (occasionally thousands) of manual spam submissions every day from Chinese IPs. Anyone used to surfing the web in China will be well used to using a proxy, so it should be no great hardship.
Now you're in trouble
When I worked at a Chinese newspaper in Beijing I was told by my Chinese colleagues to expect to have my email/internet usage monitored - especially if staying in a posh hotel. Some of it is done remotely, triggered by key words, which result in your email/internet connection being blocked for a certain amount of time, depending on the sensitivity of the word.
Not sure what words in The Word might do that.
Possibly
"entertainment" and probably "lively minds" for a start...