Great Firewall Becomes Greater

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 12, 2002 @05:38AM from the move-along-now dept.

Jay writes "This article on Yahoo! mentions China's new restrictions on websites as of September 1st. Apparently it's more advanced and doesn't censor the entire webpage, just portions. It also forwards requests for search engines, like google, to less effective search engines. They also mention that this might just be temporary during a Communist Party Congress. Anyone have a mirror?" A different AP article spins things slightly differently, emphasizing that Google is apparently no longer blocked in China and mentioning the selective blocking of web content only in passing.

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Blocking part of a webpage by poincaraux · 2002-09-12 05:47 · Score: 3, Informative

Apparently it's more advanced and doesn't censor the entire webpage, just portions.

Actually, the Yahoo article says that it blocks portions of websites rather than whole websites. Blocking parts of individual webpages would be a bit tougher :).