opendemocracy.net
All blocked
Every URL under opendemocracy.net that we can reach a verdict on — 5 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://opendemocracy.net, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and blocks the connection outright. 318 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-08-09, the most recent on 2026-05-29.
The site itself
http://opendemocracy.netBlockedhttps://opendemocracy.netas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.opendemocracy.netas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.opendemocracy.netas of 2025BlockedPages and subdomains (1)
https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/ivan-krastev/is-china-more-democratic-than-russiaas of 2026BlockedAbout opendemocracy.net and the Great Firewall
Every URL under opendemocracy.net that we can reach a verdict on — 5 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://opendemocracy.net, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and blocks the connection outright. 318 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-08-09, the most recent on 2026-05-29.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks opendemocracy.net. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
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