Vietnamese Big Brother

It's been about a week since I was last able to view my blog. I can still post new entries or edit existing ones, but that's all.

As a basic end-user, I could only blame it on these lazy computer guys at Blogger.com who don't seem to realize the seriousness of my predicament. What about my numerous readers who, no doubt about it, await with anguish my prose?

Then it came to my mind to check other blogs at random. None of them could be viewed either. It downed on me that the censorship had struck!
My parents confirmed it by viewing as usual the SimplyThierry page, from their vacation house in Normandy.

The way it works is that entries are done on Blogger.com, whereas the viewing is on Blogspot.com (don't ask me why), and the later site seems to have been blocked about a week ago by the Vietnamese authorities.

Although I know Blogger.com can't do much about this, the ironic thing is, I shouldn't expect much sympathy from them, since their parent company Google has been bashed again recently for its support of governmental censorship in China, along with its competitors Yahoo and Microsoft.

I thought about using Anonymizer.com to circumvent the blockade and view my blog, but unlike Iranians who are in the thoughts of the US government, the Vietnamese people don't have this option.

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Update 18/08/06
Not sure who is playing with the plug, but now Blogspot is viewable again in Vietnam... We'll see how it goes in China.