Chinese Google fans report on SlashDot:

First it was www.google.com that went down, then the country specific versions, now the wwwN.google.com types. IP addresses work for viewing, but a get/post doesn't work, so no searching. From what I can see, the firewall is just dropping packets on those ports at the 80,443 addresses. You can ping google, and see what open ports are on, but a raw GET on port 80 or 443 does nothing.

Will Google strike back? Or Chinese people have to use google.yahoo.com to do their searches?!! Human rights activists say more than 30,000 people are employed in China to keep an eye on websites, chat rooms and private e-mail messages.

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