so the Super Mario Wiki is banned in China

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No, really. According to several Chinese internet users, the wiki and several others owned by Porplemontage are inexplicably blocked by China's infamous firewall.:

http://www.mariowiki.com/User_talk:Porplemontage#A_message_from_another_user

Hey Porplemontage, I have a message from A gossip-loving Toad, a member from China that has this wiki blocked.

Hi Porplemontage, It has been confirmed that the Super Mario Wiki, as well as several other wiki of yours, is blοcked in Сhina. There is a discussion about it in a Сhinese Mario forum: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4158963159

I myself has joined the Wiki on August 2014, and since then the Wiki is blocked on May 2015 but then unblocked in a week, on June 2015 but then unblocked on about August 2, on August 8 but unblocked then on an unknown time, and blocked again two weeks ago. I miss this Wiki very much.

- User:A gossip-loving Toad

--Zootalo (talk) 13:01, 22 November 2015 (EST)
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http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4158963159

Clearly the wiki was too dangerous and subversive.

I hope this is a false positive and the situation is resolved soon. Sucks for our Chinese readers.
 
Is China still attacking Userpedia?

I sense a pattern here.
 
The Chinese government has a troublesome past of blocking sites for little to no justification. I doubt that any block or unblock is going to stay for long, most notably the unblocks.
 
China's lifted their ban on video games too, so censoring MarioWiki makes even less sense.


BUT...

China banned Google, then made Baidu.
China banned YouTube, then made Youku.
China banned Facebook, then made Seina Weibo.

Chinese MarioWiki confirmed.
 
It makes me wish I understand and read Chinese so I can contribute. I'm betting on a false positive on this, though. Are there similar sites blocked like that? There might be justification for Google and Youtube, but MarioWiki? Can't think of anything other than maybe its crappy community. ;)
 
Andymii said:
China's lifted their ban on video games too, so censoring MarioWiki makes even less sense.


BUT...

China banned Google, then made Baidu.
China banned YouTube, then made Youku.
China banned Facebook, then made Seina Weibo.

Chinese MarioWiki confirmed.
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Apparently, the Chinese seem to make knock-offs on major sites and companies with how they have their own Google, Facebook, and YouTube.
 
Viper26 said:
Andymii said:
China's lifted their ban on video games too, so censoring MarioWiki makes even less sense.


BUT...

China banned Google, then made Baidu.
China banned YouTube, then made Youku.
China banned Facebook, then made Seina Weibo.

Chinese MarioWiki confirmed.
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Apparently, the Chinese seem to make knock-offs on major sites and companies with how they have their own Google, Facebook, and YouTube.
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Yeah. They're not letting major companies in, and in turn making their own "versions" (in that I mean identical). You'd think if they were censoring websites to keep people from inappropriate material, they wouldn't create their own app that serves the same purpose. Like seiously, they banned the government discourages texting, then there's WeChat, a Chinese texting app that is completely legal.

Frustratingly, though, it's boosting their economy.
 
Andymii said:
Yeah. They're not letting major companies in, and in turn making their own "versions" (in that I mean identical). You'd think if they were censoring websites to keep people from inappropriate material, they wouldn't create their own app that serves the same purpose. Like seiously, they banned the government discourages texting, then there's WeChat, a Chinese texting app that is completely legal.

Frustratingly, though, it's boosting their economy.
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I think that's actually main reason they're banning those sites.