China Re-Blocks Wikipedia
An AP newswire article, via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:
The easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia traffic in China was short-lived.More here.
Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site — after a yearlong ban — they reported Friday that it was blocked again in several parts of China.
Chinese Web surfers and free speech advocates had earlier welcomed the apparent lifting of a ban on the English and Chinese versions of the site that provides free information written and edited by its users, although skeptics had voiced fears the end of the ban would be temporary.
"It was great news for us," said Yuan Mingli, 33, a software engineer in Shanghai who has contributed articles on computer science and Chinese historical figures to the site. "China's Internet users are not different from other countries' users. Wikipedia is a very important source of information for us."
posted by Fergie @ 11/17/2006 12:36:00 PM
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