Banned in Shanghai?

I heard from a colleague in Shanghai that Blogspot is jammed by the Chinese authorities, so she can't read Writing & Design - that hotbed of sedition, running dog of the Dalai Lama clique (to paraphrase the People's Daily, which I read online during the Beijing Olympics). Perhaps it's encouraging that the same folks that are banning Blogspot appear to have backed down on bigger plans to impose a kind of countrywide Net Nanny (to be installed on every computer in China). Global business weighed in. Plus the example of Iran makes the idea look pretty silly. These days there's always a workaround. Leave it to the young and disaffected to find it!