Blocked in China

It seems that we are invisible in China. Rebecca MacKinnon today reports on China's blocking of all Blogger and Typepad-based blogs:

Confirmed: All Typepad blogs blocked in China: "Asiapundit first sounded the alarm. Now it's confirmed. All Typepad blogs, including this one, cannot be seen in China. (Note that Blogger has been blocked in China for some time.) I asked some people in China to attempt accessing this..."

(Via RConversation.)

So, the remarkable open-mindedness to technology we have identified in the Party newspapers obviously doesn't extend to the opinions that technology might carry. Surprise, surprise.