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As a Chinese programmer: Please stop talking about it on HN. Save HN for us.............

EDIT:as being misunderstood I claim that I hate GFW as much as I love freedom and decent programs.

This is completely the wrong attitude. Should we stop using the number 64 in our software too? That's fucking insane. Get a VPN, leave the country, use tor, or otherwise figure out how to get around the firewall. You're asking us to essentially pretend, at high cost, that we are also behind the Great Firewall of China, and we will not do that.

Edit: It looks like you were joking. I get that. I just don't want this community to actually seriously sympathize with this concept.

Got you. My bad. I must say that is exactly why I devote myself into computer science: it's a world that you know what you gonna get when you do things right and more importantly people believe that is the right way to live. I'm living in US for about half year and will go back at the end of this month. One thing I'm 100% sure now is that I will come back here.

[NEW]I just ask my friends in China to visit the site and it turns out to be ok. Don't know how and when it recovered. Another funny story is python.org is blocked for a long time. Somebody say it is the version number 2.6.4; Somebody claim it's because GAE(could be set up as proxy); The other part believe it's because python.com...... We don't know which is the truth or neither of them.

Python.org is blocked BEFORE 2.6.4 releases. If you know Chinese you can read this article: http://www.douban.com/group/topic/8332828/

The date blocking detected is 15th Oct, however, v2.6.4 is released on 25th Oct.

Are you sure 2.6.4 was not mentioned at all on the site before its release? Django 1.4 is not out yet but there's quite a lot about it on their site, for instance.

I'm sure. Python.org/download does not contain any information about future releases.

Only the download page http://www.python.org/download/ is blocked by the Great Firewall, and has been for over 2 years now. Your referenced page says 15th Oct 2009, which seems about right.

Perhaps the reason is it's perceived as a "Google" product because the inventor Guido van Rossum works there.

Aside... China PyCon is on now (http://cn.pycon.org/2011/) in Shanghai (Dec 3 & 4th 2011).

If enough people stop talking about it in enough places, then the govt will have successfully edited the internet at large. Potential tragedy of the commons, limited mainly by outrage.

You are right. I'm just try some self-mockery in my poor English. I believe it's neither legal or moral and I constantly encourage my friends to say something as I do.

How is this a tragedy of the commons?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

In the sense that if each person removes a bit of information from the spot of the internet they're on, they're improving things for themselves and their friends, while if enough people do this, the internet as a whole is reduced in usefulness for everyone. In this analogy, censored information is the resource, but I realize it's not a perfect match with goats and common fields. :)

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