There are many ways to keep your website visible in China despite the censorship of external websites by the authorities; here is one that is quick to setup and also nimble.

Domain Mirror Plugin

There is a full mirror of The Wardman Wire at www.mattwardman.co.uk.

That is done using a plugin called Domain Mirror, which allows the copy of Wordpress installed on mattwardman.com to provide service to people viewing mattwardman.co.uk.

The Wordpress plugin

The approach is quite nimble, as I can set up a mirror viewable from China anywhere where:

• I can get a domain that can be configured to mirror this one.
• That domain is not blocked by the Great Firewall.

The advantages are:

• I only need to maintain one copy of Wordpress (my previous “UK Edition” of the blog
• I can move the whole thing to any domain that can be configured appropriately in about 24 hours for very small cost (e.g., a .uk domain would cost me around £5.00 for 2 years).

That is one way; there are several others mentioned on Wikipedia (for example) - and even more elsewhere.

A comparison: “Baby, Yer Feets Too Big”

The Chinese tradition of footbinding - preventing the the feet of women growing properly by binding them with strips of cloth into shoes as small as 3-4 inches long, involving the gradual breaking of toes and arches - has gone. (More information: not for the squeamish)

It seems to me that the current Chinese tradition of censorship - preventing the minds of people growing properly by attempting to bind them using the The Great Internet Firewall of China is as outdated and backward looking as footbinding - and should also be consigned to history.

Or to put it another way

Wrapping-Up

Let me add that I am fully aware that in my own country - the UK - there is also much work to be done to secure greater free expression.

But we do not have a government that simply bans most criticism of itself.