A ton of people on twitter are complaining about having trouble with Facebook from within China. Some people are even speculating that it's been blocked. I can verify that it's not blocked (not all the time anyhow), as I've accessed it numerous times in the past few days. But there have been times as well when it's just not come up at all.

A ping of facebook.com from my network utility reflects this "iffy" behavior. Check it out. Thirty percent packet loss:



So what's going on?

Who knows... The Net nanny is a strange ol' hag. But I think to assume that this is a full-on block by government censors would be an error at this point.

 

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