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Monday, 5 August 2013

Wall Street Journal becomes latest international news site to be blocked in China

China has blocked access to Wall Street Journal’s local language website, putting the US publication in the same position as Bloomberg and New York Times which are also censored in the country.


A check for the Chinese version of WSJ — cn.wsj.com — on monitoring site GreatFire.org shows that the URL is blocked as of this weekend, although access may have first been restricted within the last month. The English-language version of the site remains accessible, suggesting the aim is to disrupt WSJ’s reach in China rather than shut it off entirely.


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Jon Russell, The Next Web via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/x5MfdJiL6w0/

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