Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:13AM from the organized-crime-with-jails-and-guns dept.

An anonymous reader writes Basic access to Gmail is starting to come back online in China on Tuesday after going down on Friday. The state-run Global Times China did not explain what caused the four-day outage, despite the fact that the government clearly implemented the block, and instead pointed to Google's unwillingness to obey Chinese law. All of Google's products have been severely disrupted in China since June. While users in Chinaare not able to access Gmail via the website, email protocols such as IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 had been accessible. The Great Firewall of China started blocking the IP addresses used by Gmail for these protocols, leaving users in China with no way of sending or receiving emails.

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Blame is arguable. by gurps_npc · 2014-12-30 06:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

That is, if those slaves don't obey, the whipping they get is their own fault.
Similarly, if Google doesn't obey all of China's laws and their service is cut off, it must be their fault, correct?

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