TripDingo

As most (especially foreign) internet users in China are aware, large chunks of the internet are regularly unavailable to view or use without some sort of proxy service. This can get really annoying for those looking for porn or regard the BBC as an authoritative news source. It can also prevent people from using Wikipedia to substantiate every argument they use for any internet debate, trolling, or flame-war they’re engaged in. 

While perusing Danwei this evening, I came across a short list that may be helpful for reminding us of what is blocked by the Great Firewall (GFW) or “Net Nanny” (which is not to be confused with the actual www.netnanny.com, I think):

Blocked sites
Wikipedia
Wordpress blogs
Livejournal
Opera blogs
Typepad blogs—although Typepad.com itself does not seem to blocked

Partially blocked or filtered
Large parts of the BBC website are unaccessible
Flickr—some photos on older servers do not load properly
Google.com’s Image Search and News are unreliable in China and seem to be heavily filtered

Blogspot has popped on and off the list randomly throughout the past and frankly, I wouldn’t bet on it staying available in China for long. Xanga seems to still be down as well which, at one point in time about 1.5 years ago, it wasn’t before. Google’s Image Search is particularly annoying for me, especially when it works for a bit then suddenly becomes red X hell.