theconversation.com
Mixed
Results vary across theconversation.com: of 24 URLs tested, 19 are blocked and 5 are disrupted some of the time. The site itself, https://theconversation.com, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, breaks its TLS handshake and poisons its DNS. 516 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-03-02, the most recent on 2026-07-26.
The site itself
http://theconversation.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://theconversation.comas of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (22)
http://theconversation.com/ukBlockedhttp://theconversation.com/auBlockedhttp://theconversation.com/usIntermittenthttps://theconversation.com/ukBlockedhttps://theconversation.com/auas of 2026Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/usBlockedhttp://theconversation.com/africaBlockedhttps://theconversation.com/africaBlockedhttps://theconversation.com/whats-behind-the-rise-in-shareholder-class-actions-72356as of 2026Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-chinese-virus-the-politics-of-naming-136796Intermittenthttps://theconversation.com/what-can-we-learn-from-other-countries-health-systems-30885Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/business-angels-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-important-8794Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/many-professions-have-codes-of-ethics-so-why-not-politics-113731as of 2026Intermittenthttps://theconversation.com/chatgpt-in-education-breakthrough-or-disruptive-innovation-225379as of 2026Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/what-actually-is-populism-and-why-does-it-have-a-bad-reputation-109874as of 2026Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/whats-behind-the-rising-profile-of-transgender-kids-3-essential-reads-161962as of 2026Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/how-the-continents-languages-can-unlock-the-potential-of-young-africans-90322as of 2026Intermittenthttps://theconversation.com/finally-your-electricity-bill-looks-set-to-fall-heres-how-much-you-could-save-128459as of 2026Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/when-migrants-go-home-they-bring-back-money-skills-and-ideas-that-can-change-a-country-118093as of 2026Intermittenthttps://theconversation.com/smaller-brains-fewer-friends-an-evolutionary-biologist-asks-how-ai-will-change-humanitys-future-244179Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/indigenous-knowledges-informing-machine-learning-could-prevent-stolen-art-and-other-culturally-unsafe-ai-practices-210625Blockedhttps://theconversation.com/in-the-wake-of-recent-data-breaches-heres-why-you-need-to-check-your-credit-score-it-could-even-help-track-down-criminals-193537BlockedAbout theconversation.com and the Great Firewall
Results vary across theconversation.com: of 24 URLs tested, 19 are blocked and 5 are disrupted some of the time. The site itself, https://theconversation.com, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, breaks its TLS handshake and poisons its DNS. 516 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-03-02, the most recent on 2026-07-26.
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