sinodefence blocked in China?

Maggern

Junior Member
For some reason, I can now only open the forum through VPN. Anyone else has this problem? Has it been blocked in China?
 

siegecrossbow

General
Staff member
Super Moderator
That would be highly ironic, considering how sinodefence is one of the few explicitly pro-Chinese English-language Defence Forums. Has censorship dropped a brick on its foot again?

I suppose you are "wall-climbing" right now to access our forum?
 

SteelBird

Colonel
Back to a few years ago, I asked a friend of mine who lived in China to access our forum. She could access it without any problem. Is the censorship recent only? Shall we find some other guys in China to verify it?
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
It's probably a wide ban because I've been reading that a lot of sites from outside China are being blocked. A lot of news agencies reporting on stories of Chinese leadership corruption and their sites are being banned. I saw on CNN today one of their reporters doing a story on a dissident trial and obviously he wanted security to harass him on a live feed and he started to cry out that it was his right to report in a public place. In China? Obviously he said that for the camera.

In related news CNN ratings hit an all-time low recently since Jeff Zucker took over...
 

MwRYum

Major
Last time I was in China was around this time a year ago, in Beijing, and yes, though I can open up the SDF main page I couldn't go any further. Take it as it is.

As to the "why" part, though SDF is relatively pro-China when comes to a foreign forum (I don't know who exactly foots the bill for SDF so I can't use the words "purely foreign forum" ), we do throw around sensitive topics (to Chinese sensors, that is) here so that might be that.
 

Maggern

Junior Member
It's very recent. Past week or something like that...I've lived in China several times (and for a long while this time) and never had problems. I thought SDF was just being unstable, but it works fine every time I fire up the VPN, so I got suspicious...
 

Maggern

Junior Member
My gf says she's having the same problem from her computer. I think we just got river-crabbed, guys. Hopefully it'll just be a Lunar New Year thing...
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
I forgot that it was reported China suffered a major internet outage the past day. First reports said it was a cyber attack by FLG but now I'm, reading people are accusing Chinese censors for shutting down the internet. Who knows if this anything to with it or what's true.
 
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