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Q: Is the China news section of BBC website blocked?
I've been trying to read news about China on BBC's website but none of the pages load. Conversely, all other links to non-China related news work. Does the firewall block this or something? It used to always work.
11 years 2 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
Sometimes happened to me too. Yahoo and BBC, no problems with other UK newspapers.
I can't open NYT in Xin, and in Dalian was no different, so I assume, NYT is blocked in China.
Sometimes it is just specific articles I think, but you can be sure that any sites that write anything more negative than "China is the most awesome place in the world" will get blocked.
If you can't join them, block them.
i think it is a blanket ban of all China referencing pages - i have had the same problem here in the north of the country, but not when i was in the south.
The BBC has been accessible in the past, but recently, I have noticed all the China topic pages being un-openable. It's because the BBC has had a lot of China news recently, and most of it has not been good, and has been rather accurate.
It's p***ing me off, to be honest.
I remember a couple of years ago when the BBC was regulalry off-line altogether in China. That made me want to go and be an independent journalist (spy),
Moonlake:
I've noticed this too. I find it strange though that the Guardian doesn't seem to be affected. I've been reading a lot of China related articles about the recent incident if you know what I mean, and I didn't use a VPN to access it. I wonder if BBC had a falling out with China or something.
CARLGODWIN1983:
It's because the BBC is the most famous news broadcaster in the world, and they have worldwide coverage. In comparison, who has heard of The Guardian?
Thing is, the BBC is good at reporting as they have many journalists around the world.
China is probably irritated at all the negative coverage.
It is. And I am wonder, they still did not blocked my news site.
I got this today.
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Let's count, how long time till harmonization ...
Nessquick:
sTILL HERE, SEEMS OK.
Or, there will be something wait me on the way home.
Last week was a notebook broken, yesterday it was my bike stolen ...
In addition to this, can someone do me a favour and see if they can open cpfc.org? It's my football fans' forum website. I can't log-in to that either
it is possible to read the news on phone using bbc app even though it is blocked on the computer.
I can access the main Asia news page. Cannot access individual items. Can access individual items with proxy.
Whole internet works today with some issues.
I asked my girlfriend to try accessing the BBC on her phone whilst in our home. She couldn't.
So, it is clearly the sodding Government. They had better stop all this shit. I need to do things at home whilst here.
And this is why we do not mention web address here. There are people here that are paid for the sole purpose of tracking down stuff to block . I suggest you set up your own social networks that you can trust and talk amongst yourselves in private (this post will self destruct in 5.4.3.
The BBC Asia page is available. Individual content on the BBC Asia page is not available.
The New York Times has been off limits for almost two years. It was put off line after the Times created a furore at the time.
I don't know how you guys all survive without a VPN...
The BBC blockage is pretty sad, usually the coverage is fairly impartial and honest.
