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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) by bob_super on Thursday May 16 2019, @10:00PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 16 2019, @10:00PM (#844483)

    > maybe a notarized admission of guilt, done on live TV by Obama, signed with his own blood?

    That would totally be welcomed by the same people who rejected his notarized birth certificate.

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