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

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 9, 2012 @06:45AM from the information-wants-to-be-free-except-during-elections dept.

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:screw 'em, then, let them be ignorant by Extremus · 2012-11-09 07:02 · Score: 4, Interesting

How exactly blocking Gmail et al. would make China become backward?
I mean, it is a fair question.
Re:Google China by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-09 07:56 · Score: 3, Interesting

I am not living in China, But I am a chinese and a member of the communist party. I think it is suck. I do not understand what are we fear for ?