Sunday, November 11, 2012

China Appears To Block Google


http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/china-appears-to-block-google

Google's search engine and its other Web services -- Maps, Gmail, Google Drive, etc -- appear to have been blocked by the Great Firewall of China in time for the country's Party Congress, the tightly guarded, inter-governmental meeting to select new leadership, the New York Times reported Friday.
Google told the Times that there weren't any technical problems on its end, but on its own Transperancy Report monitoring webpage, Google traffic from China has dropped off sharply on Friday. Google products and services, although self-censored per Chinese Internet regulations, are sporadically blocked in mainland China, but sometimes unblocked, resulting in sudden bursts of activity on Google websites by Chinese users.
are they taking a page from Fox, limit info infavor of your own?
what are they tring to keep from their people, it's a dictatorship the people no matter what they hear are still subject the dear leader jr.'s whims. Chinese spring?