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China Blocking Access to Google News Site

Posted by timothy on from the backyard-smelters-and-now-this dept.

loconet writes "BBC and Reuters are reporting that China is blocking access to the Web site Google News according to media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. The organisation also accused Google of being complicit by filtering its Chinese-language site." From Reuters' version of the story: "The Paris-based group said the government had been blocking Google's English-language news Web site for about 10 days, after the company launched a Chinese-language version that removed politically sensitive reports."

3 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Shame on Google by skraps · · Score: 5, Informative
    If this is anything like their censoring of the regular web search, then it's not as bad as you think.

    For the chinese web search, they remove listings that are unreachable from China. China's internet is filtered, regardless of anything Google does. Google simply saved the chinese users' time by hiding the links to content that they can't access anyway.

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  2. Am in China - Google News is working by augnober · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm in China. Google News is working fine at the moment. I had never tried it from here before, so I can't verify whether or not it was ever blocked. BBC NEWS is, as always, blocked. BBC World News however, does work.

  3. Re:Remove the log from thine own eye by Jetson · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually, we did have international inspectors for this last election. And they found no real problems.

    It should be remembered, however, that several states have laws that prevent non-voters (including U.N. observers) from entering or in some cases even approaching the polling area. One state found a way around it but Florida and Ohio, the two most contested states, were for the most part not observed.