The distinct [1] 2.0 [2]ness with which an unprecedented environmental protest was carried out last week [3] in southern China's seaside Xiamen [4] city seems to have resulted, as of June 7, in the service of two websites key to the exclusive blog coverage of the event being disrupted [5]: Bullog.cn [6], where live updates [7] from the streets [8] of Xiamen were being posted, and Flickr [9], where searches for keywords like ‘antipx’ [10] and ‘xiamen’ bring back hundreds of images from the demonstration and later clashes with police and soldiers.
Lian Yue [11], columnist [12] for Guangzhou [13]‘s Southern Metropolis Daily and Bullog blogger [14] had his personal blog [15] blocked in early May, at the peak of many articles he wrote on the planned Px chemical plant [16].
Asks prominent bridge blogger [17] and Fujian [18] native Yee:
“Any reasons of baning this excellent photos share websites? So many! Especially in this June, like Xiamen people's march against PX project [19] happened on 1st June and someone did a live report [20] of the whole process on flickr.”
Buchong, one of the few bloggers who brought the Chinese blogsphere the Xiamen protest updates [19], at just before midnight Beijing time on June 7 writes on his Fanfou [21]—a Chinese version of Twitter [22]—of speculation that Bullog's having been blocked [23] might not have been an official move:
【内幕】牛博遭到攻击，疑似方粉所为。罗方的粉丝都将拥戴对象的缺点全面继承、发扬光大了，且都有不理性的行为。这种事情发生在科学发展观的旗帜之下，真是莫大的讽刺。
A look at ex-Bullog blogger He Caitou's personal blog [26] shows a post today [27], via a far more detailed version at the highly-read [28]wikipedian [29] Shi Zhao's blog, telling readers how to get past the Flickr block:
根据经验，只要哥哥你耐心地等待哟，心上的人儿就会到来哟！这一次，是《半亩塘闲话》shizhao达人。他不单给出了让你自己看的办法，还给出了让别人看的办法。请访问：
《显示flickr图片的临时解决方法》
Tips：对于很菜的菜鸟
在XP系统中，Hosts文件的位置一般是在：C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
修改的时候，选择记事本或者写字板打开这个文件，你将看到：
127.0.0.1 localhost
然后请在下面加两行，加好以后应该是这样的：
127.0.0.1 localhost
farm1.static.flickr.com 68.142.232.116
farm2.static.flickr.com 69.147.90.156
In the Windows XP system, the Hosts file is usually located at: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
While you're making changes, open the file [Hosts] in either Notepad [30] or Wordpad [31] and you will see:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Then below that add these two lines so that in the end it looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
farm1.static.flickr.com 68.142.232.116
farm2.static.flickr.com 69.147.90.156
Then save, presumably.
On top of Bullog being gone for the moment and Flickr photos showing up empty boxes, service [32] was temporarily disrupted [33] on June 7 at several English-language China-based blogs hosted by DreamHost [34]—Bokane [35], Sinosplice [36] and the China Blog List [37]—as well as expat blog Sinocidal [38] having seemingly been blocked the same day.