Saturday, November 10, 2012

China Blocks Google

Google Blocked In China As Government Leaders Meet -- CNN

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Google and all of its major services were blocked in China on Friday, as the Communist Party meets to appoint new leaders for the first time in a decade.

Google's own "transparency report" -- designed to detect and publicize service disruptions -- shows a sharp drop in traffic from China across all of Google's products. The company added the incident to its timeline of outages.

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More News On China Blocking Google

Google says search engine, other services cut off in China as ruling party picks new leaders -- Washington Post/AP
Google services blocked in China -- Computer World
Google Service Disrupted in China -- Wall Street Journal
Google says multiple services blocked in China -- NBC
Google blocked in China by censors, unclear how long it will last -- Infoworld
China Blocks Virtually All Of Google’s Web Services As 18th Party Congress Gets Underway -- Tech Crunch

My Comment: It will probably be unblocked when the 18th party Congress is over.

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