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Wikipedia blocked in China

panarmenian.net05/15th/2019, 11:36

Wikipedia blocked in China

May 15, 2019 - 15:30 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Authorities in China have blocked Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia's owner said on Wednesday, May 15, Reuters reports.

"In April, the Wikimedia Foundation determined that Wikipedia was no longer accessible in China," Samantha Lien, spokeswoman for the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, said in a email.

"After closely analysing our internal traffic reports, we can confirm Wikipedia is blocked across all language versions," Lien said.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites have long been blocked in China.

Individual Wikipedia articles about sensitive issues, such as 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square and the Himalayan region of Tibet, have long been blocked in China, however, even while the main site is accessible.

Suspicion of a total block on Wikipedia surfaced in late April when some Chinese internet users took to social media to complain that the site was no longer accessible.

Tests run by GreatFire.org, an organisation that tracks internet censorship in China, revealed that the site had not been accessible from within China since April 23.

The Cyberspace Administration of China, which oversees China's internet censorship, did not respond immediately to a faxed request for comment.

Since 2015, Wikipedia's Chinese-language site was blocked by China's "Great Firewall", which prevents internet users from accessing certain foreign ...

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