How to easily access BBC News from China

I mentioned this in my last post, but it deserves its own: there's an extraordinarily easy way to read BBC News from within China. All you need to do is use this URL: newsvote.bbc.co.uk.

As far as I can tell, this is the same site as news.bbc.co.uk, which is blocked in the mainland.

I don't know how long this has been around, but I caught it in the comments on The Peking Duck. Thanks, Liuzhou Laowai! Enjoy your pithy BBC write-ups, everyone!

[smkatz]

Why post this? Hsve some sense of journalistic responsibility. More posting = more chance of blockage.. esp. as explicit as this.

--Sam

[gwbstr]

Sam: I appreciate your concern, but in my experience merely posting something like this doesn't get a block in place. Moreover, on the journalistic responsibility point, this post doesn't put anyone in jeopardy, and most internet users around here know how to get to what they need anyway. Guides on higher-profile sites than mine telling users how to access censored sites haven't led to simple blocks of several proxies. I think this URL an easy and valuable thing for some readers, and I know I'd appreciate seeing it in my RSS.

-Graham/Sinobyte

[turtlewind]

If you think "merely posting something like this doesn't get a block in place", but that's exactly what happened to newsimg.bbc.co.uk when certain bloggers started circulating the link.

[westmeadboy]

Thanks a lot for that. Note that clicking on the "sport" link takes you to a blocked site. Just go here instead: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/sport