Thursday, October 25, 2007

Conspiracy Theory #99 - blame it on The Congress

Blogspot was freely available in China - mysteriously unblocked by those tiresome fellows down at Kafka Central - for less than one week. Yep, it's now blocked AGAIN.

The week of 'opening up' just happened to be the week that the big Party Congress was on.

Danwei has an intriguing - and horribly plausible - theory to explain this: it was just a sop to visiting journalists, to allow them to carry on reading (and writing?) their favourite blogs without any hassle, and to try and dupe them into thinking that Net censorship in China is not so bad after all.

Yes, I think that's probably it. When is the next big media circus due in town? We don't have to wait until the Olympics, do we?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I would believe that theory.