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Is Jack Balkin more subversive than Eugene Volokh? Am I?

By Ann Althouse

Yale lawprof Jack Balkin is in China, checking out which lawprof blogs are blocked:

I was able to reach Volokh Conspiracy, SCOTUSBlog, How Appealing, Election Law, Instapundit, Mirror of Justice, Concurring Opinions, Becker-Posner, PrawfsBlawg, Feminist Law Professors, Business Associations Blog, Lessig Blog, and Black Prof. I was not able to reach Balkinization, Althouse, U Chicago, Leiter Law School and The Conglomerate.

There is almost no reason to believe that, from the standpoint of the Chinese government, Balkinization is more subversive than Volokh Conspiracy or Becker Posner, or a number of other blogs on this list. It is likely that, as with most Internet filtering schemes, the results are some combination of overblocking technology, arbitrary decisionmaking, and simple luck of the draw.

I can think of plenty of reasons why the Althouse blog is more subversive!

Full post as published by Althouse on January 19, 2008 (boomark / email).