Online Encyclopedia Offline in China – Gillian Wong

From AP:

China’s easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived.

Users reported Friday that the site was unavailable in several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible.

It wasn’t immediately clear if user-contributed encyclopedia was unreachable due to technical glitches or because government censors had blocked the site again. The Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Information Industry did not immediately respond when contacted for comment Friday. [Full text]

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