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Sunday, November 11, 2012

China blocked all access to Google


This is the first full block there was an antecedent part in 2010 - suffered by the search engine in China, which began on Friday afternoon, according to reports in the web "Transparency Report"  operated by Google,  another episode in the long-running dispute between the U.S. company and the Beijing regime. They were also attacked and paralyzed services through tunnels on the Internet, which typically provide access to information from abroad without filters. A spokesman for the company located in San Francisco said not knowing what was happening interruption, and later in a statement the company said it had "checked and found nothing wrong" with her. Also search service  were disrupted by e-mail, Gmail, and Maps . The magnitude of the filters and controls further slowed the already slow speed of Internet in China, which also affected the work of many companies. The incident occurred during the pendency of the 18th party congress of the ruling Communist Party of China ,  which will culminate on November 14 with the appointment of a new prime minister and a new president. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter , and YouTube, are banned in China since many years. In 2010 Google relocated its Hong Kong server, to avoid having to censor its search results. Other pages censored by the Chinese regime is The Pirate Bay, Amnesty International, Wordpress  and even video platform "boutique" Vimeo. 

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