http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/320808298/article.pl
gzipped_tar contributed a link to Moonlight Blog, which says that
"SourceForge, the world's largest development and download repository
of Open Source code and applications, appears to be blocked in Mainland
China. The current blocking may be related to the recent anti-China
protests of Beijing Olympic Games, which will begin on 8 August. Some
days before, a very popular free source code editor in SourceForge
named Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008. The project's developer
said that the action is not against Chinese people, but against Chinese
government's repression against Tibetan unrest earlier in this year.
SF.net has once been banned by China in 2002. However, the ban was
lifted later in 2003." gzipped_tar adds: "As a SourceForge user in
Beijing, I can confirm this first-hand. I also tried traceroute to
sourceforge.net, only to find the connection being dropped at a Beijing
ISP's gateway router. It appears that the projects' respective
homepages are available even if they are hosted by SF, but the summary
and download pages are blocked." (As you probably know, Slashdot and
Sourceforge share a corporate overlord.)
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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