With all the talk of China blocking sites and telling Google what they are permitted to show, have you ever wondered if your site could be viewed from within the country?  GreatFirewallOfChina.org will give you a pretty easy way to check this out, and I’m happy to see that my site has not yet been singled out by the government … yet.

Over the last few months I’ve noticed quite a few hits from China.  A few are from people I talk with on IRC, while most are from crawlers that seem to enjoy hitting 20 pages in each of the 10 languages available within the space of five seconds.  Luckily, my web host can handle this kind of traffic.

Of course, we need to keep in mind that it’s the provincial internet providers that actually do the site blocking, so even if your site doesn’t work according to GFOC, you might still have viewers in other parts of the country.

I wonder if the Chinese immigration office will begin linking websites with contributors in order to keep the people that post potentially controvertial material out of the country….