Sincerely, I hope I am wrong. I know it’s the middle of the night where you are. I apologize if my suspicions are just that, suspicions. You must understand that we’ve been fed this line that China prohibits its citizens from free speech. Perhaps with this catastrophe the firewalls have fallen and are now back in place therefore prohibiting again...free speech. Perhaps tomorrow I will be proven wrong. I hope so.
The government did block some websites, like the blogspot of google. I can not view my blogspot, but just access it in the background to do edit jobs, like posting or revising. Can you see my blogspot? I hope so.
But this website , namely FP, I am sure that it is not blocked by the government, never in the history. In China there is a “great firewall” which we called “GFW” to filter the government predefined websites. For example, Several months ago we can not access the wikipedia, but now it is nolonger blocked. I am happy with that for wikipedia is quite helpful to me:)
China is 13 hours ahead of us... It is about 11:16am there.
While it is about 10:16pm here in the Midwest (USA Central Time)