Which free blog services are NOT blocked in China right now?

Submitted by Caliboy888 on Wed, 2007-05-09 01:09. ::
 

So back when I was living in China in the dark ages (2002-2004) I migrated my blog from Blogspot to Xanga, because at the time Blogspot was blocked and Xanga was not. Well since I've moved back to the US, I don't always know what's going on with the Chinese net. Well apparently things have flipped around and Xanga is now blocked.

I heard Blogspot has been unblocked, but it seems inconsistent. Can anyone recommend a good free blog-hosting service to move to that Chinese can still read? Part of me thinks it's hopeless though, as the China Net Nanny's changing whims will likely stricke whatever site I move to.

Any advice would be appreciated. thanks.

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tomcarter
Unblocked Chinese Blogs >
Submitted by tomcarter on Sat, 2007-05-12 09:09.

I back up the content from all my U.S.-based blogs (Blogspot, Livejournal, Myspace, etc.) on Chinese blogs. You might want to do the same. I don't think Google will penalize you for duplicate content since they don't even crawl Chinese blogs.

Here's a few to start with. Registering and posting messages is fairly simple. You don't even have to understand Chinese, though it might help to have a Chinese friend navigate for you:

 http://blog.tianya.cn/

 

http://blog.eastmoney.com/

 

http://blog.sina.com.cn/

 

and of course the new Chinese MySpace!

 

Have fun!

 Tom Carter

http://www.tomcarter.org

 

 

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It's not fun
It's not fun
Submitted by It's not fun (not verified) on Sat, 2007-10-13 04:12.

It's not fun to back up the contents to Blog servers inside China. You might be put into prison by China police only because some so-called "sensitive" words (to  the Chinese government) that you even do not know they are. You will never know what the sensitive words are, because Chinese government never tell you, only until the police come up to you.

Have you heard  the Chinese writer, Shi Tao, was arrested by China only because he sent a email from his Yahoo China account ?

There's no good free blogs not blocked by China.  If today there is one, tomorrow it will be blocked. 

If you like to blog China, censor  yourself at first, and then go to Chinese website like Tom Carter did.

 

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