Internet Filtering in China in 2004 2005 

2. News 

We tested URLs containing the strings  bbc ,  voa ,  voanews ,  epoch , and  peacehall.   Proxy 

testing found a majority of such sites blocked; in state testing found a more limited set.  Neither method 

included any blocks on URLs containing  epoch,  but both found two of two URLS containing 

 voanews.com  blocked, although URLs containing only  voa  or  voanews  received mixed results. 

Figure 23   News Overblocking 

Sites Tested  

In State Result 

Proxy Result 

Description 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Home Page for BBC 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ 

Network, UK 

http://www.deckyard.com/epoch.htm 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Deck repair 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Excellence in 

Processing Open 

http://www.epoch net.org/ 

Cultural Heritage 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Volunteers of 

http://www.fortnet.org/VOA/ 

America, Colorado 

http://www.scifi.com/onair/ 

Accessible 

Accessible 

scifipictures/epoch/ 

Science Fiction film 

Accessible 

Blocked 

Supporting BBC 

after the Hutton 

http://www.bloggerheads.com/bbc/ 

Report 

Accessible 

Blocked 

The Peasall Sisters 

http://www.peacehall.org/ 

Bluegrass Band 

http://www.penkridge.org.uk/peaceh

Accessible 

Blocked 

Village hall in 

all.htm 

Penkridge, UK 

http://www.robbooth.net/2003/07/v

Accessible 

Blocked 

Blog with link to 

oanews.shtml 

VOA Story 

Accessible 

Blocked 

Volunteers of 

America, Greater 

http://www.voa gny.org/ 

New York 

Accessible 

Brookline, MA bird 

http://massbird.org/bbc/ 

N/A 

club 

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/

Blocked 

Blocked 

Driver download; 

abit/download/drivers_update/voane

no substantive 

ws.com/ 

content 

http://www.poets4peace.com/peaceh

Blocked 

Blocked 

"Hall of Peace" at 

all.htm 

Poets4Peace.com 

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/w

Blocked 

Blocked 

Reviews of the VOA 

ww.voanews.com/ 

News page 

http://www.lnx bbc.org/ 

Blocked 

N/A 

Linux distribution 

Total (15 sites) 

27% 

62%    

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