{"id":277,"date":"2006-06-08T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/08\/google-blocked-in-china\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T11:42:19","slug":"google-blocked-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/08\/google-blocked-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Google blocked in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Google.com<\/strong> search engine has been <strong>blocked <\/strong>in <strong>most parts of China<\/strong>, as <strong>Beijing <\/strong>steps up its efforts to restrict the <strong>public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/strong>access to information, a <strong>Paris-based media watchdog<\/strong> said. Internet users in many major Chinese cities have had difficulty connecting to the <strong>uncensored <\/strong>international version of Google for the past week, <strong>Reporters Without Borders <\/strong>said in a statement received on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Google.com search engine, Reporters Without Borders said the <strong>blocking was being gradually extended to the Google News and Google Mail services.<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Google has just definitively joined the club of western companies that comply with online censorship in China,\u00e2\u20ac? Reporters Without Borders said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>It is deplorable that Chinese Internet users are forced to wage a technological war against censorship in order to access banned content<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac? Random attempts to access Google.com in Beijing confirmed that the international version of the search engine was unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google.com search engine has been blocked in most parts of China, as Beijing steps up its efforts to restrict the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s access to information, a Paris-based media watchdog said. Internet users in many major Chinese cities have had difficulty connecting to the uncensored international version of Google for the past week, Reporters Without Borders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}