ViceZilla’s Views

Seems my humble little blog has been banned in China. Why oh why would they ban ViceZilla’s Views?

Could it possibly have something to do with my views on their incessant slaughtering of the world’s sharks to feed their appetite for Shark Fin Soup? Let”s see, the last post I made about China was giving them credit for trying to clean up their act before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. While making strides towards their promise of hosting a “Green Olympics”, their appetite for eating rare, or endangered animals remain unchecked, especially by the elite and government officials.

I was actually notified by someone in China who regularly reads ViceZilla’s Views, that my web page was no longer available. I checked for myself using greatfirewallofchina. Sure as hell, it was coming up as blocked, whereas before it was unblocked. I thought it had to be a technical error somewhere. So I checked again. For three days each time I checked, it reported my URL as being blocked.

I then decided to painstakingly go through my hit log on my server. I filtered out all the hits except for those originating in China. Up until last Tuesday, April 17th roughly 5% of all hits to ViceZilla’s Views were from China. After April 17th, not one.

So for now at least it seems ViceZilla has been silenced in China, but that won’t stop me from continuing to point out the country’s gross negligence towards the world’s shark population by continuing to “fin” these endangered animals all for a bowl of soup.

Banning this would be more productive

Tags: Musings, The China Effect //