Blocking and Blogging
Blogspot, Google’s platform for bloggers has been blocked again. It had been accessible for a couple of months and someone decided to pull the IP again.
Competition wise this sounds like good news for Chinese blog service providers like Bokee and Blogcn as this means less competition. Having been blocked before in China it probably won’t make much of a difference though. If MSN spaces were to leave China it would be better.
At least if some newly proposed measures to force each blogger to id himself with the government won’t be implemented. These measures are currently being pondered over. Read more about this on Chinadigitaltimes that posted a translation of a post of one of the top IT Chinese bloggers Keso. He doesn’t feel it would be the best thing to happen.