Monday, March 21, 2011

Google accuses China of blocking his email, Gmail

Google has accused Monday, March 21, China to create disturbances on his email. "There is a blockage from the government, is such that it suggests that the problem is with Gmail," assures the American search engine, in an email sent to Agence France Presse. Chinese netizens have complained for several weeks of difficult access to their Gmail email account and disruption of virtual private networks (VPNs), which can circumvent censorship.

These problems have coincided with calls from Chinese websites based abroad which invited people to come together Sunday in a dozen cities in the spirit of "jasmine revolution" that toppled the Tunisian regime . These calls have caused great anomymes nervousness of the Chinese government, which has resulted in numerous obstacles to the work of journalists, some of whom were severely beaten by security staff and others have had their personal e-mail hacked.

TENSIONS OF LAST YEAR The U.S. group had last year a long confrontation with the Chinese government. Having said exasperated by the censorship in China and cyber attacks coming from that country, Google had decided in March not to censor its Chinese site and transfer to Hong Kong. China was then denied responsibility for cyber attacks against the group in California, calling the accusations against Beijing "s" baseless.

" Google announced in July that Beijing had renewed his license, which expired in late June, allowing it to continue operating on the largest Internet market in the world. China, which has by far the largest number of Internet users (457 million) has established a "Great Wall Computer" ("Great Firewall") that censorship on the Net sensitive issues for the authorities, such as human rights or criticism of the communist regime, and blocks Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Dailymotion.

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