The Chinese government have blocked access to tens of thousands of blogs by bannning the blogger.com site.
Earlier this year, China blocked access to Google, though it eventually lifted the ban the Search Engine complained (although it has not, according to Google Weblog, lifted its ban on the Google cache).
The Google ban led to innovative censorship-bypassing sites such as elgooG, though I suspect there will be no such workaround for blog sites. One way Chinese web users could have looked at blogspot pages was by viewing Google's cache! I guess you could call that Cache-22. Ahem.
Maybe Blogspot will find another way. I'm reminded of the words of John Gilmore, founding member of the EFF: "The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it."
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