{"id":337,"date":"2008-12-22T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-12-22T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T01:14:11","slug":"nyt-in-china-blocked-and-unblocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2008\/12\/22\/nyt-in-china-blocked-and-unblocked\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT in China Blocked and Unblocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2008\/12\/17\/china-re-blocks-sites-open-during-olympics\/\">posted<\/a> about China\u00a0 re-blocking several of the sites temporarily accessible during the Olympics. During this re-censorship spree, the New York Times website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/23\/world\/asia\/23china.html?hp\">was blocked<\/a> for mainland Chinese users, but only for three days. This morning it was finally free again. When pressed for comment about the ostensible arbitrariness of this action, Chinese authorities played dumb. Such highly visible waffling can only be counter-productive to the censorship regime. The average Chinese internet citizen must know what he or she is missing, had temporarily and could have again. A porous Chinese firewall (and the more users, the more porous it will become) is destined to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted about China\u00a0 re-blocking several of the sites temporarily accessible during the Olympics. During this re-censorship spree, the New York Times website was blocked for mainland Chinese users, but only for three days. This morning it was finally free again. When pressed for comment about the ostensible arbitrariness of this action, Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,1],"tags":[3687,56353,1959,3970,3935],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-new-york-times","tag-nyt","tag-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}