The post I wrote a couple days ago, Block you! You motherblocker!, has gotten a fair amount of comments, and all of it seemed dandy until Zhong Guo Ren tuned in.
Here is a recreation of their comment, as I had to sift through the database and manually delete it (when ever viewed, the page was immediately replaced with a “Cannot Access” page, familiar to all who suffer behind the Great Firewall.
click to big it and read it.
My guess is the Wikipedia bit, but I didn’t have the patience to test each phrase. All I know for certain is that with that comment present, I would have about 2 seconds of view time before the site would be replaced with a denied service page, and as soon as it was removed, it was business as usual. Extrapolate what you will.
Big it. Nice.
The U-word is the culprit, I think. There have been threads on PKD and Sinosplice tripped up by it as well – most of the well-known proxy names (U*, F*, and D* seem to trip the filters pretty consistently).
Cheers!! Good to know.
I had my site blocked because of a comment as well several weeks ago. However, the only thing blocked was the comment, and all comments left below it. The comment in question was much more obvious than the one you have above, so for all of our benefit, I won’t rewrite it. The biggest problem though was when I tried to go into my wordpress back end and delete the comment, the comment moderation page was blocked as well. Thus I was not even able to go in to delete the comment. Finally I had a friend in the US go in and delete it for me, and afterwords everything worked fine.
I have the same problem with comment moderation. If you have access to cpanel or other server utilities, you can get into your MySQL database (phpAdmin) and edit it directly. Sometimes this is blocked too though.
Yea, it’s the “u” word that did it. Google it and you will see google die for about 5 minutes. Personally, the best solution I have found so far is just setting up a SSH tunnel and forwarding traffic. It’s encrypted, secure, safe and works everywhere. 🙂
Oh man… Ryan, using your new WP plugin, could you let me in on the words hinted to so I can understand it too?
My problem is that I can’t test if it works on my HP. I’m in Denmark and is not bothered by the GFW. It is an annoyance that my Chinese visitors do not show up anymore though.