Yesterday, Paul Walsh reported that Wei Wenhau, 41, a Chinese construction company executive, was beaten to death by Chinese authorities for unauthorized video blogging. that, he reported has led to thousands of Chinese expressing outrage on Web chatrooms. He plus admonished Google's "disgraceful behavior" in it's policy of complicity with the Chinese government while touting a slogan of "Do no evil."

Today, Paul reports that his blog, Segala has been banned in China. Paula writes that he is doing precisely what many Chinese bloggers do. He is using a proxy server to

But there may be a curve ball, that would be a new one on me. I just tried to subscribe to Segala with my Google Reader and could not.  that could be some sort of tech glitch, but I tried three times. Coincidence, perhaps. Perhaps not. A few weeks ago, when I was writing about Egypt's Wael Abbas, who posts videos on YouTube about police briutality, YouTube temporarily took his videos down before restoring them. youTube is of course, owned by Google.