Banned in Beijing!

One of my friends from high school, Betty C Tang, is currently in Beijing. She mentioned that she can’t see my website and that it was possibly blocked in China. This, of course, has two very important consequences. One: any potential Mach Dice buyers in China won’t be able to get support for their product. Two: I can talk all I want about my friend Betty and she’ll have no idea because she can’t see this site!

Betty was the artistic one in high school. She drew a lot and she was really good. Soon after graduation, she landed a gig working as an animator on The Simpsons. We were all terribly impressed. Now she’s a supervising animator at a company in Beijing …

… where she can’t see my blog! What’s up with that? I mean, it’s not like I’m writing “Boobies, boobies, boobies!” everywhere or talking about Tianamen Square. I think they might just block all WordPress websites or something. Anyways, censorship is bad.

(Boobies, boobies, boobies!)

(Hmm … that could be an interesting iPhone app…)

Comments

2 responses to “Banned in Beijing!”

  1. Bill Walsh Avatar
    Bill Walsh

    Someone beat you to it, Mach, my man. Someone from Japan, I think (shocking, I know). I read somewhere that Apple had banned an accelerometer-input breast-bouncing simulator called “iBoobs.”

    Ah, here you go:

    http://gizmodo.com/5116493/nsfw-boob-app-on-the-iphone-is-obviously-called-iboobs-obviously-not-approved

  2. Mach Avatar

    Heh… Somehow, I’m unsurprised neither by the fact that someone came up with the idea nor the fact that it was banned. It looks like it was developed by a company in the Netherlands, but I would also not be surprised by something like that coming out of Japan. Ah, my motherland…