Google.com blocked by the Great Wall of China
By John on June 7th, 2006 in Announcement, Internet and Web.
The international version of Google.com search engine has been blocked by China’s firewall due to its uncensored contents. However, people in China still able to use the censored Chinese version of Google search engine, Google.cn, but put Google news and Gmail hanging outside the Great Wall.
I’m personally agreed to the censorship of contents against pornography and terrorism but not to the world’s news.
The Google.com search engine has been blocked in most parts of China, as Beijing steps up its efforts to restrict the public’s access to information, a Paris-based media watchdog said.
Random attempts to access Google.com in Beijing appeared to confirm that the international version of the search engine had indeed been made unavailable, while the censored Chinese-language version, Google.cn, was still accessible.
Google.cn was launched in January amid much controversy because the company agreed to censor its service according to the wishes of China’s propaganda chiefs.
Software such as Dynapass, Ultrasurf, Freegate and Garden Networks is normally used to gain access to news and information that is blocked by the firewall isolating China from the rest of the worldwide web.