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Google & Gmail blocked in China


Xiao Kui

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  • 3 years later...

BBC is reporting that in addition to the Gmail web app being unusable, it's now no longer possible to access Gmail via IMAP or POP3 (ie, via Outlook or the mail app on your phone). Anyone suffering? 

 

Oh, and just in case this is the last straw for anyone - don't forget to post here

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Don't care, running a VPN 24/7. However this bit is worrisome:

Others reported that domestic email providers had “proactively” blocked the ability to send emails to Gmail addresses—the user called this “just too funny.” On the evening of Dec. 28, Eastern Standard Time, however, it was possible to use Gmail to send and receive emails to the 163.com mail domain, one of the more popular email providers in China.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1165359-china-blocks-access-to-gmail-servers/

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Odd... the epoch times page is redirecting to "cjb.net" for me (with VPN on).

 

Edit: setting firefox to disallow redirects, starting in safe mode, changing VPN server, and even trying to access google cached versions/internet archive versions make no difference.

 

I assume this is the cause:

http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/english/2004/02/200402271620.shtml

Any way around this that doesn't require highly technical knowledge?

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  • 2 weeks later...

Graph of Gmail activity in China since the end of December 2014.  The Chinese government started block all access to Gmail on December 26. 

 

The government has learned that Christmas is the best time to do things away from international attention.  Liu Xiaobo's sentence came during Christmas, too. 

 

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/explorer/?r=CN&l=GMAIL&csd=1418630415110&ced=1421201717087

 

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The government has learned that Christmas is the best time to do things away from international attention.  Liu Xiaobo's sentence came during Christmas, too.

 

To counteract this, I propose that we rename Christmas to "Bad Shit The CCP Did Around the End of December Commemoration Day".

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