Thanks Martin. Do you know if Google Talk is still accessible ( talk.google.com)?
-Adam On Friday, November 9, 2012, Martin Johnson wrote: > Today, Nov 9, 2012, http://www.google.com was blocked in China. It's the > first time since we started tracking online censorship in China in February > last year that this has happened. Here's what we know: > > - The subdomains www.google.com, mail.google.com, google-analytics.com, > docs.google.com, drive.google.com, maps.google.com, play.google.comand > perhaps many more are all currently DNS poisoned in China. Instead of > the real IP addresses, any lookups from China to any of these domains > result in the following IP: 59.24.3.173. That IP address is located in > Korea and doesn't serve any website at all. > - This means that none of these websites, including Google Search, > currently work in China, unless you have a VPN or other cirumvention tool. > - Using a DNS server outside of China doesn't help. A lookup of > www.google.com to 8.8.8.8 is also distorted, by the Great Firewall. > - So far you can still access other country versions of Google such as > www.google.co.uk. > > You can see an overview of different Google sites here: > https://en.greatfire.org/search/google-sites. You can choose any of them > and test them in real time to stay updated. > > Affecting more users than ever > > Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were all blocked before they attracted more > than a small number of users in China. We've argued before that the > authorities didn't dare to fully block GMail since it has too many users > already. Fully blocking Google goes much further. Google Search is only the > second search engine in China (after Baidu) but with an online population > of more than 500 million that still leaves it with many millions of daily > users. According to Alexa, it's the Top 5 most used website in China. Never > before have so many people been affected by a decision to block a website. > If Google stays blocked, many more people in China will become aware of the > extent of censorship. How will they react? Will there be protests? Check > out reactions by Weibo users on FreeWeibo. > > Temporary or permanent? > > The Communist Party of China is currently holding its 18th Party Congress > in which new leaders of the party and the country are formally chosen. The > fact that Google is blocked now is surely no coincidence. The big question > is whether it will be unblocked again once the congress is over. We will > closely monitor developments. > > By the way.. Analytics > > The fact that http://www.google-analytics.com is blocked doesn't just > mean that you can't access the web interface in China. It means that visits > by Chinese users won't be tracked by Google anymore. Foreign websites using > Google Analytics to track their visitors will currently track 0 users > coming from China, whether or not their website itself is blocked. > > What to do? > > Many VPNs and other circumvention tools have been working poorly or not at > all in the last few days. The free iPhone app OpenDoor is still working, > though it has also suffered glitches recently. Another method of accessing > Google Search is to use one of their other country versions such as > www.google.co.uk or www.google.ca. These may also be blocked of course. > > You can also access Google directly using one of their IP addresses. These > don't appear to be blocked (yet). Here are some: > > http://74.125.228.64 > http://74.125.228.65 > http://74.125.228.66 > http://74.125.228.67 > http://74.125.228.68 > http://74.125.228.69 > http://74.125.228.70 > http://74.125.228.71 > http://74.125.228.72 > http://74.125.228.73 > http://74.125.228.78 > > From: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/nov/googlecom-blocked-china > > -- > Best > Martin Johnson > --- > https://FreeWeibo.com - Uncensored, Anonymous Sina Weibo Search. > https://GreatFire.org - Monitoring Online Censorship In China. > https://Unblock.cn.com - We Can Unblock Your Website In China. > >
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