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Hacker News is partially blocked in China now

43 points by hahahaha23 7y ago

AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
One too many stories about HK protests on the front page got under their skin, it seems.
- baby 7y ago
  What story?
bitxbitxbitcoin 7y ago
It was only a matter of time. PS: Winnie the Pooh.
luckydata 7y ago
Sorry folks, that might have been me /s
07d046 7y ago
The English version of the page might be more helpful: https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com These sites are also saying it's blocked: https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=news.ycombinator.com https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=news.ycombinato... http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.c...
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mrkstu 7y ago
I wouldn't mind if it came with a concomitant lack of Chinese controlled comment/voting cadres. While HN eventually re-scores to overcome this usually, it often suffers from suppressed scoring of good comments during the most active discussion periods of threads.
sneak 7y ago
What does “partially blocked” mean?
- Canada 7y ago
  Systems in some places load it, while others don't.
q6 7y ago
Ironic since HN also shadow bans accounts daily
yorwba 7y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249
taiwanboy 7y ago
This is an ominous development for Hong Kong citizens. There is talk of martial law (and use of physical violence by the Chinese army) by this weekend or beyond in Hong Kong. Without the timely reporting from Hong Kong citizens to hacker news or other websites, we won’t be able to gauge the real magnitude of destruction and oppression to our democratic Hong Kong cousins (vpn will surely be turned off by then). And it might be tiananmen 2.0 all over again. Our wish is with you, tiny island democratic people. The free world is on your side. I don’t think this time we as a free world will tolerate another tiananmen; China would face fury and economic sanctions like never before.
- atr_gz 7y ago
  The internet isn't blocked in Hong Kong - this doesn't affect them (yet).
- thomasfl 7y ago
  Thanks for the insight. Tiananmen 2.0 would definately cause massive sanctions sanctions. China probably don´t want to risk more sactions than the import tax in the US right now.
atr_gz 7y ago
It's too bad, this was my go-to site if the VPN wouldn't connect. HackerNews is read surprisingly widely here. I've met Chinese people (who work in tech) who read it. But the strangest thing I saw was a random older relative of my wife who linked an article that was just translations of various HN comments. I don't remember which post they were from. It was an AskHN - something like "what's the worst codebase you've ever seen" or whatever. It was surreal to see the translations linked a month after I'd read the original thread.
hunvreus 7y ago
I thought it was a fluke yesterday. Still blocked this morning: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnews...

43 points by hahahaha23 7y ago

AdmiralAsshat 7y ago

One too many stories about HK protests on the front page got under their skin, it seems.

baby 7y ago
What story?

bitxbitxbitcoin 7y ago

It was only a matter of time. PS: Winnie the Pooh.

luckydata 7y ago

Sorry folks, that might have been me /s

07d046 7y ago

The English version of the page might be more helpful: https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com These sites are also saying it's blocked: https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=news.ycombinator.com https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=news.ycombinato... http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.c...

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mrkstu 7y ago

I wouldn't mind if it came with a concomitant lack of Chinese controlled comment/voting cadres. While HN eventually re-scores to overcome this usually, it often suffers from suppressed scoring of good comments during the most active discussion periods of threads.

sneak 7y ago

What does “partially blocked” mean?

Canada 7y ago
Systems in some places load it, while others don't.

q6 7y ago

Ironic since HN also shadow bans accounts daily

yorwba 7y ago

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249

taiwanboy 7y ago

This is an ominous development for Hong Kong citizens. There is talk of martial law (and use of physical violence by the Chinese army) by this weekend or beyond in Hong Kong. Without the timely reporting from Hong Kong citizens to hacker news or other websites, we won’t be able to gauge the real magnitude of destruction and oppression to our democratic Hong Kong cousins (vpn will surely be turned off by then). And it might be tiananmen 2.0 all over again. Our wish is with you, tiny island democratic people. The free world is on your side. I don’t think this time we as a free world will tolerate another tiananmen; China would face fury and economic sanctions like never before.

atr_gz 7y ago
The internet isn't blocked in Hong Kong - this doesn't affect them (yet).
thomasfl 7y ago
Thanks for the insight. Tiananmen 2.0 would definately cause massive sanctions sanctions. China probably don´t want to risk more sactions than the import tax in the US right now.

atr_gz 7y ago

It's too bad, this was my go-to site if the VPN wouldn't connect. HackerNews is read surprisingly widely here. I've met Chinese people (who work in tech) who read it. But the strangest thing I saw was a random older relative of my wife who linked an article that was just translations of various HN comments. I don't remember which post they were from. It was an AskHN - something like "what's the worst codebase you've ever seen" or whatever. It was surreal to see the translations linked a month after I'd read the original thread.

hunvreus 7y ago

I thought it was a fluke yesterday. Still blocked this morning: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnews...