HONG KONG (CNNMoney)
Beijing has added yet another brick to its Great Firewall, tightening access to Google's email service in the latest phase of a censorship campaign that has left Chinese citizens unable to access huge swaths of the Internet.
Access to Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Facebook (FB, Tech30) and YouTube is blocked in China. During recent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app Instagram was blacked out on the Mainland.
Instead of using Google to perform searches, most Chinese use a homegrown alternative called Baidu (BIDU, Tech30). Instead of posting messages on Facebook or Twitter, Chinese users are pushed to Weibo.
December 30, 2014
No comments :
Post a Comment