China Reinstates Wikipedia Ban

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday November 17, 2006 @07:36AM from the that-was-depressingly-quick dept.

Rob T Firefly writes "The International Herald Tribute reports that the lifting of China's Wikipedia ban earlier this week was short-lived. Wikipedia is once again inaccessible from behind the Great Firewall, along with all other Wikimedia projects. Additionally, the URL of Chinese Wikipedia is once again a banned search term. No reason has yet been given for any of it." From the article: "It wasn't immediately clear if Wikipedia was inaccessible due to technical glitches or because government censors had blocked the site again. The Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Information Industry did not immediately respond when contacted for comment Friday. Beijing blocked access to the English and Chinese versions of Wikipedia in October last year, apparently out of concern about entries touching on the country's sensitive spots -- Tibet, Taiwan and other topics."

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What a pity by DeltaQH · 2006-11-17 09:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What a pity. For a second I thought that something was really moving in China...

Such thought control system of government are a waste of the most valuable resource, the human mind. Not to speak of other wasted resources... They are puting themselves at a great disadvantage.

I China wants to become again The Middle Kingdom, the center of civilization, they are not going in the right direction IMHO.

Seems we have to wait another 300 years. They say the are a long thinking people, it seems to me they just think toooooooo long.