Media News - Wednesday, March 26, 2008
BBC website ‘unblocked in China’
People in China are able to access English language stories on the BBC
News website in full, after years of strict control by Beijing. The
Communist authorities often block news sites such as the BBC in a policy
dubbed the ‘great firewall of China’. But BBC staff working in China now
say they are able to access news stories that would have been blocked
before. However, the firewall remains in place for Chinese language
services on the website and for any links in Chinese. Beijing has never
admitted to blocking access to BBC news stories - and there has been no
official confirmation that the website has been unblocked. But Chinese
users trying to access pages on the site have almost always been
redirected to an error message telling them: ‘The connection was reset.’
Technology experts say such a development would not be possible without
the approval of internet service providers - which are under strict
supervision by Beijing. Although no official ban has ever been
announced, the BBC News website has been blocked for almost a decade.
The Chinese language website has been blocked since its launch in 1999.
(BBC News)
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