theinitium.com
Mostly blocked
31 of the 32 URLs we have a verdict for under theinitium.com are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 840 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-08-04, the most recent on 2026-07-27.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://theinitium.comBlockedhttps://theinitium.comIntermittenthttp://www.theinitium.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.theinitium.comBlockedPages and subdomains (29)
https://theinitium.com/favicon.icoas of 2025Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/cdn-cgi/traceas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20161101-taiwan-KMTBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/tag/hong-kong-taipo-megafire/Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20150824-dailynews-abeBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/project/20150905-wwii-veteransas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20170421-taiwan-youtubeas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20160619-opinion-xuben-crBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20220901-mainland-censorshipBlockedhttp://theinitium.com/article/20160426-taiwan-Tseng-Wen-chinBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20151024-opinion-feminism2015Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20160824-mainland-toadworshipBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/tag/hong-kong-taipo-megafire-zh-hans/Blockedhttp://theinitium.com/article/20150904-mainland-greatfirewallBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20150904-mainland-greatfirewallBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20151021-dailynews-heilongjiangBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20150910-international-UygurISISas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/2015101014-opinion-mainland-yugeBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20160428-dailynews-China-NGO-Lawas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20161013-mainland-youngmaleactorsas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20210608-wsj-global-companies-exits-hkas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20160518-dailynews-iran-fashion-criminalas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/project/20160516-mainland-cultural-revolution-web/Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20200624-notes-the-1st-generation-of-chinese-immigrantsas of 2026Blockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20190725-mainland-how-mainland-media-cover-extradition-bill-marchBlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20190526-culture-booklist-junefourth/?fbclid=IwAR3BKR_pp48Pw_NMsYotT-lcPCwst_HIt4SUDuqWBEnPfJ0SQq3jNq5YLKABlockedhttps://theinitium.com/article/20190913-opinion-hk-china-constitutional-crisis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theinitium+%28%E7%AB%AF%E5%82%B3%E5%AA%92+%7C+Initium+Media%29&fbclid=IwAR0kfQv2hwuj1LdndVtInuxUCLZXgTw_ZEyJMUpB9KVhBlockedhttps://campaign.theinitium.com/20160601-tiananmen-memory/index.htmlas of 2026Blockedhttps://api.theinitium.com/api/v2/channel/articles/?channel=f1544d6a-cb5a-4e00-ab94-80ea4ff0eb2b&language=zh-hant&page=1&page_size=25UnresolvableAbout theinitium.com and the Great Firewall
31 of the 32 URLs we have a verdict for under theinitium.com are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 840 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-08-04, the most recent on 2026-07-27.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://theinitium.com is blocked, https://theinitium.com is intermittent. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks theinitium.com. 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.
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