The Chinese Year of "No Internet"

We all remember the wonderful fun on China and Google, but China has decided that rather with all that palaver of having to block sites, it's much easier to stop people accessing the internet entirely. And to that end, China has declared that there shall be no new internet cafes for a year. This is done to stop the teens from gaming all night long instead of worrying about school.

(How exactly stopping new cafes from being built still stop the teens from accessing current cafes, or simply finding other ways to access the internet, is not clear. Obviously the Chinese Government is just like any other in coming up with strange policies that may or may not having anything to do with the problem being addressed.)

But the Great Firewall is still going, and you can find out if your site can be accessed by going here. (Twenty-Sided has a post bringing this site to light, and a follow-up explaining how things work. Very interesting.)

Blogspot has been banned outright, which might explain my low readership. ;)