Yan is the propriestor of Glutter and is a Chinese citizen (I think). He notes that the Chinese government has banned all domestically run Typepad weblogs. He writes, "China has been systematically shutting down blog servers within the country in the last weeks as a means to tighten up information. So far foreign blog servers has avoided detection. Is this the beginning of even more vigilant crackdown of information?" You can read more about what is going on here and here. Please circulate news of this. Blogging disperses information more quickly than regular news media, and in many ways, can actually drive what the regular news media covers. I've sent an email to Matt Drudge, so perhaps it'll get picked up by someone.
Posted by scott at March 25, 2004 07:04 AM | TrackBackHi. Thank you. Yes I am a Chinese Citizen based in Hong Kong. I am also female although I understand my name is often confused with a European male name. Thank you for the post, makes me feel NOT helpless which is what I have been feeling all day.
Yan
Posted by: yan at March 25, 2004 06:41 PMYan - I apologize for getting the gender incorrect. I also emailed your blog and the information about China's decision to close down domestically run Typepad blogs (is it all blogs, or just Typepad blogs) to Tyler Cowen, and he has also posted about it on his site.
Posted by: scott cunningham at March 26, 2004 06:56 AM