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YouTube is fully blocked in all of mainland China and will be for the foreseeable future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 09:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I was in China in October, 2007, and I was able to access YouTube in Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Shanghai. I was in Xi'an on the October, 15 and YouTube was accessible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.214.34.206 ( talk • contribs) 16:16, 25 July 2008 (UTC) So YouTube is not blocked in China? Colipon+( T) 07:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
218.78.227.11 ( talk) 15:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)Anon 218.78.227.11 ( talk) 15:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC) Not sure of proper format, but as of 11:15pm on Friday Apr.17th, Youtube has never come back since the 29th. Shanghai.
most of the sites on the list were verified using http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/.
However greatfirewallofchina's test is no longer available (August 20, 2010). From the Web site: "Because of the ever stricter measures of censorship China imposes on the Internet, the team of www.greatfirewallofchina.org at present can no longer vouch for the reliability of its test tool. We have therefore decided to take the test tool offline."
Other comments relate to greatfirewallofchina while the test was still operating: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.19.151 ( talk) 22:46, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I have serious doubts that site is accurate. For example, it says that http://www.baidu.com, the big chinese search site, is blocked which I think is certainly false. greatfirewallofchina.org says many more sites are blocked than actually are.
In what way is greatfirewallofchina.org a reliable site to cite? It's just some random site on the internet, not a serious study. I think all the items verified in that way should be removed from the list and only real citations (eg news reports, studies) should be cited. Using greatfirewallofchina.org is borderline original research, which does not belong in wikipedia. BlankAxolotl 15:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to be fully accessible from the hotel I am staying in (Beijing). June 30th 2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.193.92.18 ( talk) 10:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
All wikipedia sites appear to be blocked from a China Netcom connection in Beijing. October 29th 2007. 213.246.227.244 04:57, 29 October 2007 (UTC) A documentary needs to be made on the laughable efforts of these censorships. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.247.5.248 ( talk) 14:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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I'm using an internet connection within the PRC, and I can access the site in English, UNTIL I click a link to change the page to Chinese, when I cease to be able to use the site at all, even if I switch back to English. Upon exitting the page however, I can, once again, go back to English pages. How curious... The Evil Chengmistress PWNS joo all!!! ( talk) 02:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
--- Update 20180620: en.wikipedia.org seems to be blocked via ipv4 route, Beijing, China Unicom 2001:DA8:201:2676:5D7B:617F:9F58:8449 ( talk) 13:32, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
I'm getting a little wary about this site. The English Wikipedia was not blocked. The Chinese Wikipedia was not blocked. And, astonishingly, the Democratic Party of China was not blocked. I also verified with Seattle, WA on this. Seattle was slower on one test, much slower, actually. -- Blah2 ( talk) 02:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Why is this under Governments and political parties? Better question: Why is a horse racing site supportive of the 2008 Olympics even on this list? Is there something wrong with that source? HanBoN ( talk) 05:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Trying to maintain any list of blocked sites in China is just not possible. They block new websites all day, every day; impossible to keep up.
Both greatfirewallofchina.org and websitepulse.com are not reliable, and they are not proper sources either. I've tested a few sites listed here (such as chinalawblog.com). Many sistes listed can be accessed without any problem in Beijing, so the list does not make sense. For several sites, the RSF article was given as a source when that article in fact doesn't mention them. I've removed all sites from the list for which no proper sources were given. Criteria for proper sources can be found here: Wikipedia:Reliable sources. See also: Wikipedia:No original research. Other relevant guidelines: Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (web). — Babelfisch ( talk) 02:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Because of the olympic games, it seems like the PRC has unblocked a great majority of websites. This list needs to be updated. This post is from a residential PRC connection. 221.218.171.224 ( talk) 10:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
All foreign over seas alibis and countries have no rights under declaration of jurisdiction Amendment rights and civilization rights automatically signed U.S.Supreme Court Right Caliswaggbae ( talk) 23:42, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
My only source is the Journals made by large amounts of Chinese users, but according to them deviantART will be blocked by tomorrow (Jan 24 2009). 71.179.46.39 ( talk) 20:09, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I noticed one of the sites listed under the "Blogging, vlogging, and web hosting services." Was a site called PMSbuddy.com, a site for women to keep track of their periods. Not only is this site unsourced, but there's also a link included with it. I find it very hard to believe that China would block a site like that. Is it possible that someone from the site decided to use this page for advertising? – Nahald ( talk) 16:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
do the websites under the "previously blocked" section really need to each say "(now unblocked)" after every example? 139.222.194.233 ( talk) 22:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that some websites are being blocked in the Serbian part of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( Republika Srpska) and i wonder if there's some kind of tool available to systematically check urls if they work or not. The websites being blocked are GeenStijl and the related Dumpert.nl, both being Dutch (which is remarkably, and thats also why i think there must be a lot more) -- eiland ( talk) 13:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
When I was in Beijing, I went on this page to check the sites that where blocked, but it always loaded halfway. Then, I refreshed the page and it wouldn't load, but every other wikipedia page worked. I think it should be put here. 86.163.103.108 ( talk) 00:30, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
This page is not "halfway blocked" as it is now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.217.162.8 ( talk) 10:34, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Right; Facebook will never be unblocked in China, it is far too dangerous to the PRC to ever allow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 09:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I am in China now like a vastly growing number of young and older expats. I am surprised that your references includes information about the blockage of facebook but it is missing in your content, especially being the largest social network globally.
Michael voice ( talk) 01:35, 5 November 2010 (UTC) michael_voice
I live in Beijing. Have lived here for five years. Looks like the information is a bit out-of-date. For instance, I just checked Picasa Web Albums ( https://picasaweb.google.com/home), and it worked for me. Same with zh.wikipedia.org. Likewise, my blog -- http://sujinyan.com/ -- which is a wordpress blog works just fine, so putting "All Wordpress-powered blogs are still blocked as of November 2011" isn't correct. docs.google.com is working for me as well.
The restriction of access to websites in China is a big deal, so I think folks should probably spend a bit of time to get the information on this page updated... and keep it updated.
Perhaps some sort of table format, which sights the last time a page was checked?
Also, perhaps saving screenshots of the messages that occur as proof?
Sujinyan ( talk) 10:45, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
The page claims to list "the most notable .. blocked websites" in China. I found that many of the websites listed were either not currently blocked (such as www.google.com, www.nobelprize.org ect), or not notable (Radio Canada International, United Nations News etc). I changed the approach to a table sorted by the websites Alexa rank (hence the most notable first). I also only include websites with a source showing it's blocked. I'm happy to discuss/adapt the approach to fit better with Wikipedia standards. Also, the list is far complete and I will add more entries. If you have sources showing when a website was blocked, earlier than 2011, please add. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreatFireChina ( talk • contribs) 10:59, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I don't know how to format the date column better. I specified the year first which looks awkward but at least allows sorting by year. But it doesn't sort by month. Anybody knows how to fix it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreatFireChina ( talk • contribs) 11:19, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The following websites were blocked during the afternoon of 15 June 2012 (UTC+08:00) to the morning of 17 June 2012 (UTC+08:00). Since such websites have been unblocked as of this time, I've removed them from the table.
Alexa Rank | Domain | Website | URL | Category | Primary language | Blocked since |
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16 | yahoo.co.jp | Yahoo! Japan | yahoo.co.jp | Portal | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
21 | google.co.jp | Google Japan | google.co.jp | Search | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
79 | rakuten.co.jp | Rakuten Market | rakuten.co.jp | Shopping | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
94 | amazon.co.jp | Amazon Japan | amazon.co.jp | Shopping | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
564 | yomiuri.co.jp | Yomiuri News | yomiuri.co.jp | Publication | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
628 | excite.co.jp | Excite | excite.co.jp | Portal | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
633 | sponichi.co.jp | Sponichi News | sponichi.co.jp | Publication | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
660 | nikkeibp.co.jp | Nikkei BP Japan | nikkeibp.co.jp | Publication | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
4480 | sony.co.jp | Sony Japan | sony.co.jp | Corporation | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
22196 | sonymusic.co.jp | Sony Music Japan | sonymusic.co.jp | Record label | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
Thanks, 125.33.255.90 ( talk) 06:59, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm currently travelling in China and are surfing the net from a cybercafe and every site on this list I can access just fine. Great firewall my ass! And someone tell me how to insert my ip in here so you all can check.
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I argue that first of all all the sites blocked in the past are not notable enough for it to be listed. In addition, if there is an ethical reason to list all the sites blocked in the past, I say the World Wide Web did not come into being until at least 1990, so why not list all the sites as unavailable before 1990... for the sake of ethics? And of course, there is always an archive to be explored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.244.13.79 ( talk) 13:58, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
China is the worst country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.12.19.250 ( talk) 10:59, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
New York Times website is blocked in China due to it's reporting of Wen JiaBao's family financial gains while he was in office. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 06:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 06:36, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I was in Shanghai this summer before Wikimania and, while surfing from the hotel's business center, observed the following effects of the GFW:
Also, nytimes.com is so completely blocked that not only can you not get it on the web, the Times app on my iPad could not refresh at all the entire time we were in Shanghai. Once we were in HKG, though, it went back to normal.
At a session at Wikimania, a lawyer from Shanghai discussed how Golden Shield works and how it negatively impacts Wikipedia. He said that in some areas of China, you can only get Wikipedia at universities and only if the university administration allowed (in some cases charging extra for it). This was debated by some of the other mainlanders present, mostly from Guangzhou University, who said that that was not their experience as the university not only permitted but sometimes encouraged them to use Wikipedia to research their papers.
For what all this is worth ... Daniel Case ( talk) 16:51, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
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It looks like China is progressively blocking all foreign search engines, first Google Search (and all other Google services) around April 2014, then www.startpage.com around July 2014, then www.duckduckgo.com since end of August 2014... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.157.180.62 ( talk) 06:40, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Add it to the list. After China's attack on all Google services in 2nd June this year, Omegle got blocked soon thereafter. 116.236.205.123 ( talk) 04:06, 26 November 2014 (UTC)W4rb1rd
Just at last year! Mediafire had blocked in China. I tested.
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Them two also join the "China Club".
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Tumblr is also blocked. At least from Baeijing I couldn't have accessed it anytime. I have tried several times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.183.139.215 ( talk) 12:10, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
When I was on Facebook using a VPN, I saw Tsai Ing-Wen's post that Facebook was allegedly accessible from China (specifically Nanjing, from a laptop), and it was, however with some difficulties.
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RE: As for today, according to comparitech it isn't.
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Hi, could anybody point me to a site where I can get the alexa rank of a website in order to add the domain to this table? Thanks. Quasipodo ( talk) 10:08, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Sigh 36.40.14.51 ( talk) 02:52, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
As of July 2018 it appears to be reblocked Amoymonarch ( talk) 13:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Looks like wikia was banned in China...... But it doesn't.
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I think reddit has been blocked today. Cant access and I tried a website tester that also couldnt access. Could access yesterday. Seems like they got quora and github too? - flametix -- 183.167.175.155 ( talk) 01:42, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Both of them are not blocked in China. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samweithe4 ( talk • contribs) 08:31, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
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Canadian broadcast company's all services, Reuters all sites have been blocked since 2014. 116.16.121.71 ( talk) 01:26, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
man, i saw that nintendo.com is banned in china LucianoTheWindowsFan ( talk) 23:12, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
I am in mainland China and I do not have a VPN, but somehow I am granted access to en.m.wikipedia.org! —-- Ný(rönn)-Holtredéþch-Deskrúð / Nyholtredehn Discussion! 11:57, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
A user came on IRC and said that they're in China, and Etsy is blocked - but they can't add this to the article themselvves because they're on a VPN. Anyone know a source we can cite? DS ( talk) 03:46, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Just as a note, if you can use a blocked website from this list in China, it may still be blocked. It seems to be that even if your phone shows a Chinese provider, as long as you're using roaming from the US SIM the websites are not blocked. Use a residential internet connection, if you want to be sure. AwesomestUser ( talk) 19:22, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
It seems that from yesterday evening 6 November (China time) the English Wikipedia has been unblocked in Mainland China? I live here, and starting from last night I was able to access enwiki without a VPN. Other versions of Wikipedia are still blocked though. Should I add this information on the article?
Unblock all blocked web sites and permantly block overseas continents outside the jurisdictions of United States of America of Justice and Freedom Rights as of imprinted in Amendment Rights Caliswaggbae ( talk) 23:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
AO3 appears to have been blocked around February 28/29, so keep an eye out for any news coverage. PvOberstein ( talk) 17:47, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
The line "This page does not apply to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, where most of Chinese law does not apply." Should be changed to better represent how Taiwan is an independent nation and not part of the PRC. Currently wording makes it appear that Taiwan is in a similar situation to Hong Kong and Macau which is factually untrue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucAce1997 ( talk • contribs) 18:04, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that @ GreatFireChina: began to edit this article and add citations to greatfire.org. This site is an anonymous blog and does not meet Wikipedia's standards for reliable secondary sources. I also removed some other obvious blogs and Reddit (a user-generated content forum site). Due to Wikipedia's standards of verifiability we need to make sure that the sources we cite are reliable. Thank you all for your concern. Elizium23 ( talk) 02:17, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
So this is obviously a contentious political topic, with all kinds of nefarious figures bound to be involved, but even so, I can't help but notice that an overwhelming amount of the entries here have absolutely no references at all. And some of them seem a little sus -- TikTok is a Chinese company, as far as I can tell most of their users are based in China, I didn't look into it too hard but I can't really find any sources saying it's been banned there. Anyway, I can only assume someone spent a ton of time adding in all of these websites, so I didn't want to be a jerk and delete them all, but I did add {{citation needed}}s to the entries that didn't have inline references. { } 22:47, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Do we update the wiki page once a website's Alexa Rank goes up/down, or do we leave as it is? Another option is that we put the original rank in brackets and leave it while we update the actual number. ScratchyGamer314 ( talk) 03:42, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
P.S: We could also start a new column with current and original Alexa ranks on the table instead of putting in brackets to make it more clear. ScratchyGamer314 ( talk) 03:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter are currently given as "Partially blocked (available for highly educated and foreign tourists)". Each has the same reference, a South China Morning Post article from June 2018 about a local government plan on Hainan island to allow access for tourists. Even if this has gone into effect, our article as it stands suggests nationwide access for tourists. And the source says nothing about "highly educated"... Chinese people? Tourists? I don't know what the intent is here. With so many {{cn}} tags in the article, I'm loath to just remove these, but it really needs more investigation. For now, I've changed the phrase to the more narrow "available for tourists in Hainan", but I don't even know if that is really accurate. -- BDD ( talk) 21:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
reddit and pornhub are not blocked in China. can someone fix this? 96.5.248.100 ( talk) 14:20, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
Apparently the provincial government never went through with their plan to unblock FB, Youtube, etc in 2018 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3464733-- 2601:646:8400:1ED0:E854:5059:62FC:6850 ( talk) 06:21, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
I've found that yes the Blogger (blogger.com) and the Blogspot.com subdomains are only partially blocked in China, The Great Firewall of China owned and run by the the Mainland Chinese communist government is blocking the blogger.com and blogspot.com as well as the Blogspot Subdomains which cannot be accessed in Mainland China, however I've found something interesting if your blogspot.com subdomain is connected to a custom domain, i.e. www.example.com and even though it uses the same Google Name Servers, A, AAAA, CNAME records and other DNS settings sites as Blogspot the Blogger site becomes accessible in China using that custom domain. So it appears that they are blocking based on the domain name and not the IP Address or DNS information. YborCityJohn ( talk) 03:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
I believe nbc.com is unblocked through my own experimentation and according to the Chinese version of this article. W dvd ( talk) 08:09, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
Websites critical of the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party, such as those of human rights groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch , and Freedom House, are also blocked. Hieuchipt ( talk) 11:26, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
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YouTube is fully blocked in all of mainland China and will be for the foreseeable future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 09:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I was in China in October, 2007, and I was able to access YouTube in Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Shanghai. I was in Xi'an on the October, 15 and YouTube was accessible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.214.34.206 ( talk • contribs) 16:16, 25 July 2008 (UTC) So YouTube is not blocked in China? Colipon+( T) 07:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
218.78.227.11 ( talk) 15:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)Anon 218.78.227.11 ( talk) 15:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC) Not sure of proper format, but as of 11:15pm on Friday Apr.17th, Youtube has never come back since the 29th. Shanghai.
most of the sites on the list were verified using http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/.
However greatfirewallofchina's test is no longer available (August 20, 2010). From the Web site: "Because of the ever stricter measures of censorship China imposes on the Internet, the team of www.greatfirewallofchina.org at present can no longer vouch for the reliability of its test tool. We have therefore decided to take the test tool offline."
Other comments relate to greatfirewallofchina while the test was still operating: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.19.151 ( talk) 22:46, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I have serious doubts that site is accurate. For example, it says that http://www.baidu.com, the big chinese search site, is blocked which I think is certainly false. greatfirewallofchina.org says many more sites are blocked than actually are.
In what way is greatfirewallofchina.org a reliable site to cite? It's just some random site on the internet, not a serious study. I think all the items verified in that way should be removed from the list and only real citations (eg news reports, studies) should be cited. Using greatfirewallofchina.org is borderline original research, which does not belong in wikipedia. BlankAxolotl 15:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to be fully accessible from the hotel I am staying in (Beijing). June 30th 2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.193.92.18 ( talk) 10:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
All wikipedia sites appear to be blocked from a China Netcom connection in Beijing. October 29th 2007. 213.246.227.244 04:57, 29 October 2007 (UTC) A documentary needs to be made on the laughable efforts of these censorships. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.247.5.248 ( talk) 14:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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I'm using an internet connection within the PRC, and I can access the site in English, UNTIL I click a link to change the page to Chinese, when I cease to be able to use the site at all, even if I switch back to English. Upon exitting the page however, I can, once again, go back to English pages. How curious... The Evil Chengmistress PWNS joo all!!! ( talk) 02:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
--- Update 20180620: en.wikipedia.org seems to be blocked via ipv4 route, Beijing, China Unicom 2001:DA8:201:2676:5D7B:617F:9F58:8449 ( talk) 13:32, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
I'm getting a little wary about this site. The English Wikipedia was not blocked. The Chinese Wikipedia was not blocked. And, astonishingly, the Democratic Party of China was not blocked. I also verified with Seattle, WA on this. Seattle was slower on one test, much slower, actually. -- Blah2 ( talk) 02:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Why is this under Governments and political parties? Better question: Why is a horse racing site supportive of the 2008 Olympics even on this list? Is there something wrong with that source? HanBoN ( talk) 05:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Trying to maintain any list of blocked sites in China is just not possible. They block new websites all day, every day; impossible to keep up.
Both greatfirewallofchina.org and websitepulse.com are not reliable, and they are not proper sources either. I've tested a few sites listed here (such as chinalawblog.com). Many sistes listed can be accessed without any problem in Beijing, so the list does not make sense. For several sites, the RSF article was given as a source when that article in fact doesn't mention them. I've removed all sites from the list for which no proper sources were given. Criteria for proper sources can be found here: Wikipedia:Reliable sources. See also: Wikipedia:No original research. Other relevant guidelines: Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (web). — Babelfisch ( talk) 02:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Because of the olympic games, it seems like the PRC has unblocked a great majority of websites. This list needs to be updated. This post is from a residential PRC connection. 221.218.171.224 ( talk) 10:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
All foreign over seas alibis and countries have no rights under declaration of jurisdiction Amendment rights and civilization rights automatically signed U.S.Supreme Court Right Caliswaggbae ( talk) 23:42, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
My only source is the Journals made by large amounts of Chinese users, but according to them deviantART will be blocked by tomorrow (Jan 24 2009). 71.179.46.39 ( talk) 20:09, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I noticed one of the sites listed under the "Blogging, vlogging, and web hosting services." Was a site called PMSbuddy.com, a site for women to keep track of their periods. Not only is this site unsourced, but there's also a link included with it. I find it very hard to believe that China would block a site like that. Is it possible that someone from the site decided to use this page for advertising? – Nahald ( talk) 16:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
do the websites under the "previously blocked" section really need to each say "(now unblocked)" after every example? 139.222.194.233 ( talk) 22:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that some websites are being blocked in the Serbian part of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( Republika Srpska) and i wonder if there's some kind of tool available to systematically check urls if they work or not. The websites being blocked are GeenStijl and the related Dumpert.nl, both being Dutch (which is remarkably, and thats also why i think there must be a lot more) -- eiland ( talk) 13:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
When I was in Beijing, I went on this page to check the sites that where blocked, but it always loaded halfway. Then, I refreshed the page and it wouldn't load, but every other wikipedia page worked. I think it should be put here. 86.163.103.108 ( talk) 00:30, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
This page is not "halfway blocked" as it is now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.217.162.8 ( talk) 10:34, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Right; Facebook will never be unblocked in China, it is far too dangerous to the PRC to ever allow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 09:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I am in China now like a vastly growing number of young and older expats. I am surprised that your references includes information about the blockage of facebook but it is missing in your content, especially being the largest social network globally.
Michael voice ( talk) 01:35, 5 November 2010 (UTC) michael_voice
I live in Beijing. Have lived here for five years. Looks like the information is a bit out-of-date. For instance, I just checked Picasa Web Albums ( https://picasaweb.google.com/home), and it worked for me. Same with zh.wikipedia.org. Likewise, my blog -- http://sujinyan.com/ -- which is a wordpress blog works just fine, so putting "All Wordpress-powered blogs are still blocked as of November 2011" isn't correct. docs.google.com is working for me as well.
The restriction of access to websites in China is a big deal, so I think folks should probably spend a bit of time to get the information on this page updated... and keep it updated.
Perhaps some sort of table format, which sights the last time a page was checked?
Also, perhaps saving screenshots of the messages that occur as proof?
Sujinyan ( talk) 10:45, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
The page claims to list "the most notable .. blocked websites" in China. I found that many of the websites listed were either not currently blocked (such as www.google.com, www.nobelprize.org ect), or not notable (Radio Canada International, United Nations News etc). I changed the approach to a table sorted by the websites Alexa rank (hence the most notable first). I also only include websites with a source showing it's blocked. I'm happy to discuss/adapt the approach to fit better with Wikipedia standards. Also, the list is far complete and I will add more entries. If you have sources showing when a website was blocked, earlier than 2011, please add. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreatFireChina ( talk • contribs) 10:59, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I don't know how to format the date column better. I specified the year first which looks awkward but at least allows sorting by year. But it doesn't sort by month. Anybody knows how to fix it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreatFireChina ( talk • contribs) 11:19, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The following websites were blocked during the afternoon of 15 June 2012 (UTC+08:00) to the morning of 17 June 2012 (UTC+08:00). Since such websites have been unblocked as of this time, I've removed them from the table.
Alexa Rank | Domain | Website | URL | Category | Primary language | Blocked since |
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16 | yahoo.co.jp | Yahoo! Japan | yahoo.co.jp | Portal | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
21 | google.co.jp | Google Japan | google.co.jp | Search | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
79 | rakuten.co.jp | Rakuten Market | rakuten.co.jp | Shopping | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
94 | amazon.co.jp | Amazon Japan | amazon.co.jp | Shopping | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
564 | yomiuri.co.jp | Yomiuri News | yomiuri.co.jp | Publication | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
628 | excite.co.jp | Excite | excite.co.jp | Portal | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
633 | sponichi.co.jp | Sponichi News | sponichi.co.jp | Publication | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
660 | nikkeibp.co.jp | Nikkei BP Japan | nikkeibp.co.jp | Publication | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
4480 | sony.co.jp | Sony Japan | sony.co.jp | Corporation | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
22196 | sonymusic.co.jp | Sony Music Japan | sonymusic.co.jp | Record label | Japanese | 2012, June 15 |
Thanks, 125.33.255.90 ( talk) 06:59, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm currently travelling in China and are surfing the net from a cybercafe and every site on this list I can access just fine. Great firewall my ass! And someone tell me how to insert my ip in here so you all can check.
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I argue that first of all all the sites blocked in the past are not notable enough for it to be listed. In addition, if there is an ethical reason to list all the sites blocked in the past, I say the World Wide Web did not come into being until at least 1990, so why not list all the sites as unavailable before 1990... for the sake of ethics? And of course, there is always an archive to be explored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.244.13.79 ( talk) 13:58, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
China is the worst country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.12.19.250 ( talk) 10:59, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
New York Times website is blocked in China due to it's reporting of Wen JiaBao's family financial gains while he was in office. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 06:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 06:36, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I was in Shanghai this summer before Wikimania and, while surfing from the hotel's business center, observed the following effects of the GFW:
Also, nytimes.com is so completely blocked that not only can you not get it on the web, the Times app on my iPad could not refresh at all the entire time we were in Shanghai. Once we were in HKG, though, it went back to normal.
At a session at Wikimania, a lawyer from Shanghai discussed how Golden Shield works and how it negatively impacts Wikipedia. He said that in some areas of China, you can only get Wikipedia at universities and only if the university administration allowed (in some cases charging extra for it). This was debated by some of the other mainlanders present, mostly from Guangzhou University, who said that that was not their experience as the university not only permitted but sometimes encouraged them to use Wikipedia to research their papers.
For what all this is worth ... Daniel Case ( talk) 16:51, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
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It looks like China is progressively blocking all foreign search engines, first Google Search (and all other Google services) around April 2014, then www.startpage.com around July 2014, then www.duckduckgo.com since end of August 2014... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.157.180.62 ( talk) 06:40, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Add it to the list. After China's attack on all Google services in 2nd June this year, Omegle got blocked soon thereafter. 116.236.205.123 ( talk) 04:06, 26 November 2014 (UTC)W4rb1rd
Just at last year! Mediafire had blocked in China. I tested.
114.240.119.226 (
talk) 02:22, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Them two also join the "China Club".
106.185.37.37 ( talk) 22:17, 3 February 2015 (UTC)Ch1nko
Tumblr is also blocked. At least from Baeijing I couldn't have accessed it anytime. I have tried several times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.183.139.215 ( talk) 12:10, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
When I was on Facebook using a VPN, I saw Tsai Ing-Wen's post that Facebook was allegedly accessible from China (specifically Nanjing, from a laptop), and it was, however with some difficulties.
Lukas1321 ( talk) 06:18, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
RE: As for today, according to comparitech it isn't.
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Hi, could anybody point me to a site where I can get the alexa rank of a website in order to add the domain to this table? Thanks. Quasipodo ( talk) 10:08, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Sigh 36.40.14.51 ( talk) 02:52, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
As of July 2018 it appears to be reblocked Amoymonarch ( talk) 13:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Looks like wikia was banned in China...... But it doesn't.
117.22.21.121 (
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I think reddit has been blocked today. Cant access and I tried a website tester that also couldnt access. Could access yesterday. Seems like they got quora and github too? - flametix -- 183.167.175.155 ( talk) 01:42, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Both of them are not blocked in China. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samweithe4 ( talk • contribs) 08:31, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
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Canadian broadcast company's all services, Reuters all sites have been blocked since 2014. 116.16.121.71 ( talk) 01:26, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
man, i saw that nintendo.com is banned in china LucianoTheWindowsFan ( talk) 23:12, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
I am in mainland China and I do not have a VPN, but somehow I am granted access to en.m.wikipedia.org! —-- Ný(rönn)-Holtredéþch-Deskrúð / Nyholtredehn Discussion! 11:57, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
A user came on IRC and said that they're in China, and Etsy is blocked - but they can't add this to the article themselvves because they're on a VPN. Anyone know a source we can cite? DS ( talk) 03:46, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Just as a note, if you can use a blocked website from this list in China, it may still be blocked. It seems to be that even if your phone shows a Chinese provider, as long as you're using roaming from the US SIM the websites are not blocked. Use a residential internet connection, if you want to be sure. AwesomestUser ( talk) 19:22, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
It seems that from yesterday evening 6 November (China time) the English Wikipedia has been unblocked in Mainland China? I live here, and starting from last night I was able to access enwiki without a VPN. Other versions of Wikipedia are still blocked though. Should I add this information on the article?
Unblock all blocked web sites and permantly block overseas continents outside the jurisdictions of United States of America of Justice and Freedom Rights as of imprinted in Amendment Rights Caliswaggbae ( talk) 23:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
AO3 appears to have been blocked around February 28/29, so keep an eye out for any news coverage. PvOberstein ( talk) 17:47, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
The line "This page does not apply to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, where most of Chinese law does not apply." Should be changed to better represent how Taiwan is an independent nation and not part of the PRC. Currently wording makes it appear that Taiwan is in a similar situation to Hong Kong and Macau which is factually untrue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucAce1997 ( talk • contribs) 18:04, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that @ GreatFireChina: began to edit this article and add citations to greatfire.org. This site is an anonymous blog and does not meet Wikipedia's standards for reliable secondary sources. I also removed some other obvious blogs and Reddit (a user-generated content forum site). Due to Wikipedia's standards of verifiability we need to make sure that the sources we cite are reliable. Thank you all for your concern. Elizium23 ( talk) 02:17, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
So this is obviously a contentious political topic, with all kinds of nefarious figures bound to be involved, but even so, I can't help but notice that an overwhelming amount of the entries here have absolutely no references at all. And some of them seem a little sus -- TikTok is a Chinese company, as far as I can tell most of their users are based in China, I didn't look into it too hard but I can't really find any sources saying it's been banned there. Anyway, I can only assume someone spent a ton of time adding in all of these websites, so I didn't want to be a jerk and delete them all, but I did add {{citation needed}}s to the entries that didn't have inline references. { } 22:47, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Do we update the wiki page once a website's Alexa Rank goes up/down, or do we leave as it is? Another option is that we put the original rank in brackets and leave it while we update the actual number. ScratchyGamer314 ( talk) 03:42, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
P.S: We could also start a new column with current and original Alexa ranks on the table instead of putting in brackets to make it more clear. ScratchyGamer314 ( talk) 03:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter are currently given as "Partially blocked (available for highly educated and foreign tourists)". Each has the same reference, a South China Morning Post article from June 2018 about a local government plan on Hainan island to allow access for tourists. Even if this has gone into effect, our article as it stands suggests nationwide access for tourists. And the source says nothing about "highly educated"... Chinese people? Tourists? I don't know what the intent is here. With so many {{cn}} tags in the article, I'm loath to just remove these, but it really needs more investigation. For now, I've changed the phrase to the more narrow "available for tourists in Hainan", but I don't even know if that is really accurate. -- BDD ( talk) 21:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
reddit and pornhub are not blocked in China. can someone fix this? 96.5.248.100 ( talk) 14:20, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
Apparently the provincial government never went through with their plan to unblock FB, Youtube, etc in 2018 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3464733-- 2601:646:8400:1ED0:E854:5059:62FC:6850 ( talk) 06:21, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
I've found that yes the Blogger (blogger.com) and the Blogspot.com subdomains are only partially blocked in China, The Great Firewall of China owned and run by the the Mainland Chinese communist government is blocking the blogger.com and blogspot.com as well as the Blogspot Subdomains which cannot be accessed in Mainland China, however I've found something interesting if your blogspot.com subdomain is connected to a custom domain, i.e. www.example.com and even though it uses the same Google Name Servers, A, AAAA, CNAME records and other DNS settings sites as Blogspot the Blogger site becomes accessible in China using that custom domain. So it appears that they are blocking based on the domain name and not the IP Address or DNS information. YborCityJohn ( talk) 03:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
I believe nbc.com is unblocked through my own experimentation and according to the Chinese version of this article. W dvd ( talk) 08:09, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
Websites critical of the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party, such as those of human rights groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch , and Freedom House, are also blocked. Hieuchipt ( talk) 11:26, 4 March 2024 (UTC)