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| China blocks the Guardian, censorship-tracking website says | China blocks the Guardian, censorship-tracking website says |
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| The Guardian’s website has been completely blocked in China, according to a censorship-tracking website. | The Guardian’s website has been completely blocked in China, according to a censorship-tracking website. |
| The website was first blocked on Tuesday, according to the website greatfire.org. Numerous attempts to access the site from multiple browsers, devices and locations across Beijing all failed without the aid of firewall-circumventing software. As of Wednesday afternoon local time, the Guardian’s mobile and iPad apps were still uncensored. | |
| China's leadership is known to block websites that it deems a threat – Bloomberg and the New York Times have been blocked since 2012, when they published lengthy investigations revealing the vast wealth accumulated by the families of senior leaders. | China's leadership is known to block websites that it deems a threat – Bloomberg and the New York Times have been blocked since 2012, when they published lengthy investigations revealing the vast wealth accumulated by the families of senior leaders. |
| China’s foreign ministry brushed off a question about the block at a regular press briefing on Wednesday. "This is the first time I have heard of this,” said ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, according to Reuters. "I don't understand the situation. You can inquire with China's relevant department." | |
| The reasons for the Guardian block are unclear – no China-related stories published by the Guardian in the past two days would obviously be perceived as dangerous by the country's leadership. One article, published on 6 January, explores tensions in China’s ethnically-divided north-western region Xinjiang, but the Guardian has covered the subject before without any noticeable fallout. | The reasons for the Guardian block are unclear – no China-related stories published by the Guardian in the past two days would obviously be perceived as dangerous by the country's leadership. One article, published on 6 January, explores tensions in China’s ethnically-divided north-western region Xinjiang, but the Guardian has covered the subject before without any noticeable fallout. |
| It is also unclear whether the block is permanent or temporary. The Chinese-language versions of Reuters and the Wall Street Journal were blocked in November, but unblocked after about a month. | |
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