Ethan Zuckerman sez:
Isaac Mao is one of China's best known bloggers, and part of our Global Voices posse. He posted a funny and provocative post on April Fools day – it read in part, "Isaac Mao was exiled to Siberia… what do you want to visit now?" and linked to various funny net memes.
Evidently, the Chinese internet censors didn't think it was too funny. Either because of the April Fools' joke – which got a lot of traffic – or a diagram Isaac recently posted, illustrating how he believed the Chinese firewall works, his site has been blocked by his ISP, probably under pressure from Chinese internet censors. Isaac's a wonderfully funny guy and has reassured readers on his backup site – which he helpfully titles "Not IsaacMao.com" – that he sees the situation as a great way to learn about internet censorship in China. GV and others have offered him hosting in the US, but he says he'd prefer to continue hosting in China so he can understand more about how filtering and censorship are working.
Link to Issac Mao's original domain, and here's where his site currently lives. More details here: Link.
