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[Jinn]

The People’s Republic of China has apparently barred its citizens from visiting a host of Google properties, including the main search engine, Google Apps, Google Reader and Gmail. A search on Twitter (preferred hashtag seems to have become #fuckgfw) reveals that many Chinese are complaining, particularly about not being able to use the search engine, although it appears Google.cn can still be reached at this point.

Can anyone actually in China confirm this in comments? As far as we can tell from using tools such as WebsitePulse, a lot of Google services are effectively blocked at this point. We’ve also cross-tested other popular US services like Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook and Bing, which appear to remain accessible for the moment.

The block of the services appears to have become apparent to users around 10 AM Eastern Time. We’ve contacted Google for comment.

Update: A person seemingly located in Xiamen, China, says Google Books, Google Talk and Image Search have also been blocked in the comment section of this post. Other services like Blog Search, Translate, Maps and Analytics are reportedly borked as well. YouTube has been blocked in the country for quite some time already.

We should note this is reminiscent of the recent blocking of Twitter and Bing in the lead-up to the anniversary of Tienanmen. CrunchGear has noted in the past that China’s censorship practices are gradually becoming more sophisticated in general.

Earlier this week, FastCompany reported that Google clashed with China over pornographic material that could possibly turn up in search results on Google’s Chinese language site. The search giant then agreed to “take all necessary steps” to ensure that this issue was resolved in due time. Perhaps they did not move quickly enough for country officials and they got shut down over this dispute?

Either way, this is a draconian measure any way you look at it.

Update 2: 11:05 AM Eastern time - reports are coming in saying that access to some Google services have been restored

[Jinn]

中国政府把gmail封杀了
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/censorship-20-china-blocks-google-search-apps-gmail-and-more/
如果真这样，就麻烦了。呵呵

[Jinn]

　　6月24日10时消息，搜索引擎网站谷歌(Google.com)今晚九点半左右开始在国内无法正常访问，中国用户无法使用包括Gmail、谷歌阅读器等在内的多项Google服务。 不过，谷歌中国搜索网址（Google.cn）仍能访问。

　　谷歌中国(Google China)公共关系部人士崔谨在接受网易科技采访时表示，谷歌中国也是刚刚收到用户反馈，用户表示无法使用谷歌服务。谷歌中国技术部正在进行调整。她表示，此次多项服务无法使用原因正在调查，详情尚不清楚。

　　最新：截至到11点10分，部分用户已经能够访问谷歌(Google.com)，但广州地区电信用户反映，Google.com和Gmail仍存在无法使用。此次谷歌境外网站和多项服务无法服务长达一小时，谷歌中国尚未发表任何评论解释原因。