china blockage

Looks like the monthly blocking of blogpsot.com by the Giant China Internet Hammer is in effect.

Why is this such a routine thing? I think the government does as follows:

1. block the whole site for three days to a week
2. sweep through every single blog, looking for bad things
3. block the individual bad blogs
4. unblock everything else

Thank you so much, China. I'm sure it's all for a good cause.