Chinese Regime Blocks Access to Google Services
November 10th, 2012Via: International Business Times:
According to a website dedicated to tracking which sites have been blocked or censored by the Chinese government, Google.com along with a host of other Google services are no longer accessible from mainland China.
The Chinese web monitoring website, GreatFire.org, first reported the issue at 1pm (GMT) today, Friday, 9 November stating in a tweet: “Latest! It appears that Google Search is now blocked in China. Tested in many locations.”
This is the first time this has happened since the website began tracking online censorship in February last year.
As well as Google.com being inaccessible, a number of other Google services are also reportedly offline. Gmail, Google Maps, the Google Play store, Google Analytics and more are all currently “DNS poisoned” according to GreatFire.org.
