[myhdl-list] Re: MyHDL website not accessible in China

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
> Jan,
> 
> Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> 
>>
>> idea why mine are blocked (yahoo is a big name and I pay for
>> the service.)
> 
> 
> Recently it went through the press that Yahoo is supporting the 
> censorship done by the Chinese government to the Internet. I wonder 
> whether it is actually Yahoo that is not allowing the page being 
> accessed from within China?

In that case I would expect that the web sites would not turn up
in a search on the chinese yahoo search engine. (cn.yahoo.com).
But they do. This in contrast to baidu.com ...

I can't imagine it has anything to do with MyHDL. (Although one
should never underestimate the Verilog lobby :-)). I assume we
are the victim of some general brute-force rule.

> For an article about censorship in China see the following link:
> 
> http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/28/china11798.htm
> 
> Maybe asked your Yahoo contact person for the page about that issue.

Mm, that could take a long time :-) But also here I can't imagine that
this would be at yahoo's side. I read a report on the internet about
someone with a similar issue. The block was at the Chinese side, and
yahoo reported that "they couldn't do anything about it". I guess
we would get the same answer.

> It would be interesting to know whether the page was accessible before 
> you changed it to be an wiki? I wonder whether someone is afraid that 
> user from within China would use it to post critical content?

As nicran said, my web site could not be accessed even before the
new wik-based MyHDL subdomain was launched. So it seems a more
general and earlier problem.

In the mean time, I double-checked with another Chinese MyHDL user. He
confirmed that the web site is not accessible.

Regards, Jan

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