michael + nellie’s blog of awesome

dear bloggers,

as we touched down in shanghai, i began my regular post-flight routine. find signal, get mail, read blogs. however, despite a swift completion of the first two, the third was causing me some trouble. blogger, squarespace, wordpress… all the greats running, slower than christian bales career between newsies and batman begins.

ding! the proverbial light-bulb went off.

so, i played a little game - “stump the chinese firewall.”

doing standard google query for “noodles”, “rice”, “apple inc.”, etc yielded normal results, as you can see :

however, i conveniently “lost connection to server” every time the subject matter was in any way, well… democratic. note the highlights in the below:

i’m no economist or or social-journalist. i’m just a guy that wants to see what’s going on in my friends lives. so all this is to say - it’s a shame that the government here finds your exploitation of freedom repulsive. if you don’t see my comments, it’s not because i don’t love, it’s because china hates you.