Reporters Without Borders claims that surfers in China are unable to access Google.com
China accused of blocking access to Google.com
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07 Jun 2006, William Eazel , V3
The Chinese authorities are believed to have blocked a majority of domestic users from accessing Google.com.
Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders claims that internet users in major Chinese cities have had difficulty accessing Google's international site for the past week.
The block is also said to be affecting Google News and Google Mail.
However, Google China, which blocks politically sensitive material to comply with government censorship rules, is not experiencing any such difficulties, according to Reporters Without Borders.
"It was only to be expected that Google.com would be gradually sidelined after the censored version was launched in January," said the organisation in a statement.
Cui Jin, a spokeswoman for Google in Beijing, insisted that the situation is being investigated.
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I disagree
In Changchun all of Google's services (except Google.cn) are firewalled. This has been happening for the last week or so. However, as of this morning Google.com and Gmail have started to work again. Seems someone upstairs is playing games with the firewall.
Posted by DC, 08 Jun 2006
Yes, it is blocked
The article is telling truth.
But what can you do?
Posted by aa, 08 Jun 2006
Google
There is only one problem with this article: it is not true. From Beijing and Shanghai is no problem to reach Google.com
Posted by Fons Tuinstra, 07 Jun 2006