List of websites blocked in the People's Republic of China
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More than 2600 website urls are blocked in the People's Republic of China under the country's policy of Internet censorship[1] . This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites. This page does not apply to the special administrative regions of Hong Kong, (which has its own internet legal system) and Macau. Also note that many of the sites listed may be occasionally or even regularly available, depending on the access location or current events.
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[edit] Media
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation – Norwegian website blocked due to the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese human activist Liu Xiaobo.
- Radio Canada International – Chinese version, still blocked as of March 2010.[2]
- China Times (www.chinatimes.com.tw) – At various days in 2002.[2]
- United Nations News (www.unitednationsnews.com) – An independent news website not affiliated with the United Nations.[2]
- WordswithMeaning! (www.wordswithmeaning.org) - An independent news and political affairs provider, blocked due to content regarding conspiracy, freedom of speech and stories regarding E.T life [3][4]
- Boxun.com – Due to call for Jasmine revolution on the website.[5]
- Ustream.tv – A platform for lifecasting and live video streaming of events online; blocked since April 2011.[6]
[edit] Social Networks, Blogging Platforms, Video, Image Sharing and Web Hosting Services
- YouTube[7][8][9][10]
- Vimeo – Blocked since October 15, 2009.[11]
- Twitter – Blocked since June 2, 2009.[8][12][13]
- Tumblr
- Google Documents
- Google App Engine - Unblocked as of November 27, 2011.
- Google Plus
- Picasa Web Albums – Blocked since July 2009.[14]
- Technorati (www.technorati.com) – Still blocked as of July 2, 2008.[15]
- Blogspot blogs – Still blocked as of July 4, 2010, but Blogger no longer appears blocked. Both Blogspot blogs and Blogger as of May 15, 2009, had been fully blocked.[8][9][16]
- Wordpress - All Wordpress-powered blogs are still blocked as of November 2011.
- Plurk (www.plurk.com) – Still blocked as of April 23, 2009.[17]
- Wretch – The largest Taiwanese blog and image hoster, blocked since August 2007;[18] blocked as of April 25, 2009.
- PBworks – Still blocked as of January 19, 2011.[19]
[edit] Non-governmental organizations
- China Bill of Rights (www.chinabillofrights.org)[20]
- Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org)[20]
- Wikileaks (www.wikileaks.org) (possible to access now,2011.10.18)[21]
- Falun Gong – related websites like (www.falundafa.org).[2][22]
- Nobel Prize Foundation (nobelprize.org)
- Amnesty International (amnesty.org)
[edit] Political organizations
- Central Tibetan Administration (www.tibet.com) - Blocked October 2002.[20]
- Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China (http://www.alliance.org.hk/) - Block as of June 17, 2009.
[edit] Other websites
[edit] Wikipedia
Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org, secure.wikimedia.org), other language versions of Wikipedia (aside from certain articles) were unblocked for a period of time in 2007. On 31 August 2007, all languages of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites were once again blocked in Mainland China.[24] They could reportedly be accessed through secure connections.[25] On July 31, 2008, the BBC reported that the Chinese Wikipedia had been unblocked that day in China; it had still been blocked the previous day. This came within the context of foreign journalists arriving in Beijing to report on the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics.[26] It is currently more accessible with repeated clicks on taboo matter causing the user to be locked out. However, this page is blocked.
Since late July 2009, all images on Wikimedia pages have been removed by certain ISPs in China.[25]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "GreatFire.org - Bringing Transparency To The Great Firewall Of China". https://greatfire.org/. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d Zittrain, Jonathan; Edelman, Benjamin (2002). "Sites Blocked in China - Highlights". Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China. Harvard. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/China-highlights.html.
- ^ "Words with meaning HQ". WWM HQ. http://www.wwmhq.tumblr.com.
- ^ "Words with meaning". http://www.wordswithmeaning.org/.
- ^ http://www.evri.com/organization/boxun-0x10ee0c
- ^ http://www.greatfirewall.biz/ustream.tv
- ^ "YouTube blocked in China". HerdictWeb. 2009-05-18. http://www.herdict.org/web/explore/detail/id/CN/2071. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ^ a b c Branigan, Tania (2009-06-02). "China blocks Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniversary". London: guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/02/twitter-china. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
- ^ a b "Blocking of Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Blogger deprives Chinese of Web 2.0". Reporters without Borders. 2009-06-02. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=31481.
- ^ Schwankert, Steven (2007-10-18). "YouTube blocked in China; Flickr, Blogspot restored". IDG News. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/18/YouTube-blocked-in-China_1.html. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ [1], Shanghaiist
- ^ "Reports: China blocks Web sites ahead of Tiananmen anniversary". CNN.com. 2009-06-02. http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/02/reports-china-blocks-web-sites-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary/. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
- ^ Wauters, Robin (2009-07-07). "China Blocks Access To Twitter, Facebook After Riots". washingtonspost.com. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/07/AR2009070701162.html. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
- ^ [2], Shanghai Tech Writer
- ^ Hertz, Adam (2006-04-26). "Access to Technorati from China". Technorati. http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/04/98.html.
- ^ Goldkorn, Jeremy (2009-05-15). "Blogger.com blocked, but not the Washington Post". Danwei. http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/bloggercom_blocked_but_not_the.php.
- ^ "China Blocks Micro-Messaging Site Plurk. Is Twitter Next?". TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/china-blocks-micro-messaging-site-plurk-is-twitter-next/. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
- ^ China blocks public access to Taiwan’s blog portal sites, China Post, 05 January 2008.
- ^ "The dilemma presented by China’s content filtering of my current handouts website", retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ a b c "Reporters Without Borders website blocked". Reporters without Borders. 2003-04-15. http://www.rsf.org/print.php3?id_article=6132.
- ^ John, Paczkowski (2008-02-18). "Like Trying to Take Pee Out of a Swimming Pool …". Digitaldaily.com. Archived from the original on February 28, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080228033518/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080218/wikileaks/. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
- ^ How Multinational Internet Companies assist Government Censorship in China[dead link]
- ^ [3], TorrentFreak news: IsoHunt blocked.
- ^ Schwankert, Steven (2007-09-06). "Wikipedia Blocked in China Again". IDG News via PCworld. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136879-c,sites/article.html. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ a b Chao, Loretta (2008-07-01). "Facebook Gets Poked in China". Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/07/01/facebook-gets-poked-in-china/. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
- ^ "China allows access to a bit of Wiki". New Zealand Herald. 2008-04-07. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10502510. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
[edit] External links
- GreatFire.org - Database of what websites are blocked in China going back to February, 2011.
- Blocked In China - Test if any website is blocked in China in real-time.
