The folks over at TechCrunch are reporting that the Chinese government is now blocking the popular tech site — and they think they know why. My question: How come the government in Beijing doesn’t see me as a threat, too?

It’s not like I’m not trying. Writing earlier this week about the government shutdown of a hacker training program probably made me more popular than I’d like. The story actually makes it look like the Chinese government cares about hacking trainers and cybercrime.

Of course I didn’t recall any embarrassing moments in modern Chinese history, the way a TC writer did in his post titled “A Googler Has His Tiananmen Square Moment.” But that doesn’t mean I’m not anxious to annoy the totalitarian powers that be half a world away.

For now, the TC folks are trying to verify that they’ve been blocked behind the Great Wall. Posters from that part of the world seem to be confirming that, without a VPN connection or something similar, TC is indeed unavailable in China.

Lucky bums.

Tags: block, China, TechCrunch, Tianament Square