Comments on: Reports suggest China may have blocked access to Facebook

While nothing has been confirmed, Twitter messages and blog posts suggest that problems accessing Facebook in China may be more than just Internet service provider issues.

[bakedpatato]

Huh? One of my friends is at China proper now for a vacation, and has had no problems uploading pictures and stuff...I think tech problems are to blame.

[Balfor]

I am in Beijing and I have not been able to access my account since yesterday. Someone obviously did not pay someone else the proper *fee* in cash-under-the-counter.

[Balfor]

OH -- FYI -

I can log in via a proxy server in the USA with no problems. I usually have to use a proxy server at various times for various sites deemed *unholy* by "The Peoples Ministry of Correct Humor, Legitimate Amusement, and Acceptable Behavior", and so on.

In China, we thank God for the Undernet! May it live long and prosper!

[poemcode]

I'm in Guangzhou, China, and can access facebook.com. But I can't access sourceforge.org

[thabassman]

They will probally will torrent the site all together..

[Balfor]

pirate bay torrent site is off here in BJ as well.. :-(

[insertyourrealname]

wow.. facebook is blocked o.o
hopefully for the time being..?
I'm in Shanghai. Facebook was working earlier today but I guess it's blocked now.. o.o
I hope more news pop up about this.

[qdwarescom]

I am in Beijing and Twitter has been blocked since the 20th Tiananmen anniversary.
I noticed Facebook was blocked late yesterday night. Its a sad day for me as all my friends and family in the UK use Facebook on a daily bases. I've tried to use a proxy but I find them slow, plus for some reason I can't submit messages..

Daniel (considering leaving China altogether)

[china_eyes]

I'm here in China particularly in Shenzhen and I'm **** off for the blocking of facebook. Now I cannot access to my account anymore and almost all my friends are there. I'm a foreigner. I don't know why it's block here. News block out? Like what they did to other blog or social networking sites with blogs? Hey even if they block these sites the news will still leak out. News here especially if bad for the government's image is cut on air, mid-news. Pity them (Chinese people) this is the new age and they still hold on to old culture.

[KrisTiiOwns]

Is this the only thing that China can think of doing? Don't they know that this can really **** people off? Not just foreigners visiting China, but for the people LIVING in China. I am so dissappointed in China right now. And everybody was going around saying how great China is and will be. I would like to start believing when China actually starts to behave like it. Well that's my opinion.

China stop blocking FACEBOOK and YOUTUBE.
Just cause u did, don't expect me to rely on your Tudou or Youku.
They don't have the things I'm looking for.

[celiuz]

"China stop blocking FACEBOOK and YOUTUBE.
Just cause u did, don't expect me to rely on your Tudou or Youku.
They don't have the things I'm looking for."


Good point there.China could probably be trying to adopt their sites.Which is no surprise.People like me here in China,no choice but to take these corrupted system and go with the flow.

[celiuz]

Guys,this thing about sites being blocked continuously here in China is simply sad.I'm a foreigner been in China 3yrs straight studying.Youtube was very useful back when we could actually use it because they had tutorials on hard subjects like calculus and etc.It's difficult studying your majors all in chinese esp for us bachelor students.I don't really like facebook,but to add my thoughts.When bebo.com became inaccessible to their users,I started assuming that the same thing will happen to these famous sites like Twitter and facebook.I use myspace all the time and myspace isn't blocked yet.I wonder why...but for us here in living and scratching our heads when things like such happens,we have no choice but to go along.Simply sad.

[x3Kelly]

Okay, fantastic.
Thanks to China i now can't get into facebook ._.
Places like Australia hasn't blocked facebook. Why does China have to?
Its so unfair, is it just cause China wants to earn money so that people that live in China have to pay money just to call overseas instead of just leaving an instant message on facebook?
That is just ****** up. I pity this country.
Same along with youtube, WHY DO YOU ***** HAVE TO BLOCK YOUTUBE?!?!?!
WHY NOT BE LIKE HONG KONG? -.-

[tokoG]

I've been living in HK for 11 years and this week i the first time in 4 years I am back in China for business. 4 years ago, there was no FB. Anyway, I've been trying to long on from Shenzhen for over 10 times for the last 3 days, all failed. I don't think it's the connection problem. I also tried in different places like in Starbucks and from my mobile using 3G connection but all failed.

Why FB hasn't investigated on this yet? If they identify the technical problem there is a next step to what to do. Basically China is the biggest market for FB. So FB marketing is slacking off?

I am pretty positive this is a censorship in fact, when I googled "Facebook blocked in China" I also couldn't access to some sites.