2008-06-10

Is Flickr banned in mainland China?

The last week, I have been trying to get permissions from some photographers in mainland China for usage of their photos. 10% of the requests I have made so far are simply just ignored (I have never got any rejection mail), so I did not care much about not getting any replies from them untill I found out articles regarding that Flickr is banned in mainland China.
http://mashable.com/2007/06/08/flickr-ban-in-china/
http://www.isaacmao.com/meta/2007/06/flickrs-almost-banned-in-china.html
I also tried yahoo mail but the latter article says that it is banned too.
Does any one succeed sending any Flickr mail or yahoo mail to mainland China lately?

2 comments:

zhanmou said...

flickr of Chinese users use:
firefox + Access Flickr!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286

if not, they can't explore flickr

Mou.
flickr.com/zhanmou

Takaaki Kawakami / 河上隆昭 said...

Thank you zhanmou for the information. I have just received a reply from one of those artist, so I guess there's no problem in receiving and sending mail through Flickr.