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July 6th, 2008 @ 17:21
A CVG reader has written to the site complaining it isn’t viewable behind the “Great Firewall of China.”
“I’ve just recently moved from the UK to Shanghai, China,” said CVG reader Alan. “I’m wanting to browse my favourite games news site and the Great Firewall of China has blocked it.”
He goes on to say that normally only politically-charged sites get blocked, and is therefore puzzled as to why CVG is on the list. He is currently using a proxy server in order to gain access.
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By Mike Bowden
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July 6th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
There is no such thing as restrictions on freedom of press in China. Please move along.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I thought there was? Got proof otherwise?
July 6th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Oh, I must have dropped this:
/sarcasm
July 6th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
You really didn’t need it, wz.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Would say its an improvement to have CVG blocked. But that’s me.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Shame its not Kotaku either, but thats me also.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
*Yawn* Man, these last few days before E3 are so boring on the gamingnews front.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
July 4 weekend, innit. Dead as dodos
July 7th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Funny, I can read it and I’m in Bijing. I guess Shanghai is more restrictive then.
Now do a big news article about that.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Now that I had a think about it I find this rather annoying.
A site get a letter from a reader.
They don’t bother to do any fact checks.
They post a story based on a lie.
This lie is then repeated on other sites.
The lie becomes accepted as truth (?)
Is this how you work with gaming news as well?
The Miyamoto “Sega games look shit” quote trimming springs to mind…
July 7th, 2008 at 8:03 am
CVG is pretty reputable, Tonka. And as there’s no way of us corroborating the story, we ran with it. However, if it was like, not dead as anything, we would’ve probably have left it.