If there are other sites that have the prohibited content in China being blocked I would totally completely understand but what would be so damage to the country from a site like Flickr from which the only thing it does is sharing the photos? So far, it seems that Picasa from Google is still accessible in China but have no idea when it will be following Flickr's footprint. Yahoo, the parent company of Flickr, doesn't seem to be able to get it back online in China. The site being blocked in China not only hurts a lot of foreign tourists but also hurts Government self because simply they even didn't do the work right. It left all text still visible on the site but banned the servers that only host the photos.
It certainly hurt me too as after spending a little money and tons of time transferring and uploading my little Sammy's photos to Flickr, all my friends and families see is the red cross-marks all over the place on the page. They've been throwing the questions back to me asking why I wanted to share cross-mark pictures with them.
Anyway, after did a few Google search, a simply workaround in the link below can by pass the filter but you have to use Firefox to be able to do it because this little tool is an add-on in Firefox. Sorry IE, there is another booming opportunity for Firefox.
http://www.ericmacknight.com/wordpress/?p=76
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