Internet blocking is not only happening in China. Below is the internet user  ctenbp  found out that in Franc China international broadcast company website Tibetan related pages for a month still can not be used. So he sent a thread in Anti-cnn, ask other Chinese does it work, the answers from Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Italy said 'can not open', the answers from China said 'can open'. They have photo copy the pages as proofs for the working and un-working pages. See original post http://www.anti-cnn.com/forum/cn ... 77079&extra=&page=1

You can self try it out, below is the links from Tibetan.chinabroadcast.
   
中国国际广播电台藏语台在境外被封？
中国国际广播电台藏语拉萨话频道http://tibetan.chinabroadcast.cn/lhasa.htm
中国国际广播电台藏语康巴话频道http://tibetan.chinabroadcast.cn/kangba.htm
这两个网页在中国大陆可以访问，但是在法国访问不了。这种状况已经至少两个月了。
不知道其他地区情况怎么样。如果境外都访问不了的话，还不如改名叫中国国内广播电台。
很想知道到底是什么人出于什么目的封锁了网站。

Is free speech protect by law? Or people just think so??

It must be because 4th of July. Maybe those links are perceived anti-patriotic in the West.

the both sites cannot be opened in Ireland

[ Last edited by guc at 4-7-2008 06:11 ]

that´s true.
i am in Germany, i can´t open them.

In the US, can't open. Wow, the West also blocks sites, surprised? Maybe not much. The page cannot be found

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following: If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. Open the tibetan.chinabroadcast.cn home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Click the Back button to try another link. Click Search to look for information on the Internet. HTTP 400 - Bad Request Internet Explorer

It'd be interesting to know if anyone else in Asia elsewhere, Middle East, South America, and Africa is having this problem as well.

We should try it in the third world and in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
Maybe there's something wrong with the domestic server.
CCTV can broadcast normally in those countries.
They needn't block a website in Tibeten, a language known by few in  the west.

There is no doubt that  free speech and free press are protected by law in the west.

[ Last edited by missingelm at 4-7-2008 15:10 ]

I've tried three poxy servers in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
None of them can open this website.

The probability of Internet blocking is very low.

missingelm  Thanks, for your post. I have changed the title of this  thread into a question mark.  Hope more people here can help solve this puzzle.