Ever since the Amsterdam-based group monitoring China's official internet restrictions took its test tool offline (for reference see post of June 23, 2007, "Great Firewall of China"), I haven't been able to know for sure whether this blog is viewable in China.
But just yesterday, a friend in coastal China said she could see it!
For many months, early in 2007, from the blog's inception, friends in China told me time and again they would enter this URL and come up empty.
The main purpose of my blog was to reach out to my Chinese business partners and other interested parties in China, to stimulate debate and exchange ideas on global warming, the climate crisis and appropriate policy responses and business opportunities.
I never once thought the Chinese government specifically blocked my site, but rather assumed it was a policy against all blogspot.com blogs hosted by Google.
My debut in China is puzzling--like the New York Times site going down one day and then reappearing a day or so later.
The randomness of it all, the sheer unpredictability of the internet censors makes an effective strategy and sends a chilling message whether true or not:
We are everywhere and watching everything.
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