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posted by martyb on Thursday May 16 2019, @03:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the information-wants-to-be-free! dept.

China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia

Beijing has broadened its block of online encyclopedia Wikipedia to include all language editions, an internet censorship research group reported just weeks ahead of China's most politically explosive anniversary.

According to a report by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), China started blocking all language editions of Wikipedia last month.

Previously, most editions of Wikipedia -- besides the Chinese language version, which was reportedly blocked in 2015 -- were available, OONI said in their report.

[...] Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia, said it had not received any notices explaining the latest block.

According to the organisation, Wikipedia has been blocked intermittently in China since 2004.

[...] The expanded block of Wikipedia comes as Chinese authorities under Chinese President Xi Jinping ramp up online controls and crack down on Great Firewall circumvention tools, such as virtual private network (VPN) software.

In November, China's cyberspace authority said it had "cleaned up" 9,800 accounts on Chinese social media platforms like messaging app WeChat and the Twitter-like Weibo that it accused of spreading "politically harmful" information and rumours.

Chinese Twitter users have also told AFP that they have experienced intimidation from local authorities -- and even detention -- for their tweets.

Also at Futurism, BBC, NY Post & CNet.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:15AM (#844222)

    This is the equivalent of book burning of the 1900s.

    "Never again" is a phrase that starts the next inevitable cycle. You see that already with the chicken-shit scared Nazis in America and Europe and elsewhere running around starting to pit one man vs. another. As long as people continue to be slaves to their emotions, Nazis will always win until the shitstorm cycle resets itself with "how could we be so fucking stupid... Never again!"

    German Nazi book burning had nothing to do with China's banning of wikipedia though. Nazis burned books to prove to "themselves" that they don't need the contamination in their society and still flourish. Where they finally ended up is total destruction of Germany with occupation lasting almost another decade. And parts of Germany remained separate until late 1950s, like Saarland.

    But if the non-Nazi but scared shitless people that listen to them, would talk to the people that they are actually suppose to be scared of, then Nazis would lose all power. That is the main reason why multiculturalism is such a good vaccine vs. Nazis. It's much harder to hate "the other" if they are part of your family and part of your life. Remember the "Great Gay Marriage Scare" 10 years ago?? Where is it now? The same shit today but the "they' is not gays anymore.

    Nazis flourish when good men do nothing and allow these idiots to scare the ignorant.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:15PM (#844505)

    Absence of war does not mean peace.