Slashdot and Sourceforge share a corporate

Mainland China blocked SourceForge.  It is the world’s largest development and you can download repository of Open Source code and applications freely.  It may or may not related to the recent anti-China protests against Beijing Olympic 2008 Games.  It will begin on 8 August 2008.  A few days before, A very famous free IDE Code Editor Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.  The project’s developer said, it is not againts Chinese people, it is against Chinese Government’s repression against Tibetan  unrest earlier in this year.

In 2002, Sourceforge.net has once banned by China. However, it was not anymore in 2003

I have solutions how-to-bypass-blocked-websites using proxy or SSH tunneling dynamic port forwarding.  Though you have to get free proxy server, or even better you have SSH account.

When I “tracert www.souceforge.net”, I could see that problem may be coming from a router of China Telecom.

Sourceforge.net users in Beijing, I could 100% confirm this problem.  I also tried traceroute to sourceforge, but I could only find the connecting dropped at a Beijing ISP’s gateway router.  The summary and download pages are blocked, whilst the project’s respective homepages are available.

Chinese authorities whenever they want, they would blocks websites that it finds objective, especially dealing with politics sensitive subjects.  Such as, Many websites relating tibet and politics also blocked such as FreeTibet.org and SaveTibet.org.  Is that the reason of this blocking?