China Blocks Google.com, Gmail, Maps and More During 18th Party Congress

DavidGilbert99 writes "In an extraordinary move, the Chinese authorities have blocked access to Google.com, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, and many more Google services as the Communist Party of China holds the 18th Party Congress. The blocking of these sites was reported by Chinese web monitoring site GreatFire.org, which said, 'Never before have so many people been affected by a decision to block a website.' The latest move in a long line of disputes between the Chinese government and Google, it is unclear yet whether this denial will be temporary (like a similar one in 2010) or permanent."

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Re:Possible outcome?

[Calydor]

You are not thinking big enough.

This is the beginning of a coup that will claim the lives of EVERYONE in the Communist Party as they use APPLE MAPS(!) to get to the congress.