Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspapers have reportedly blocked access to websites by China. According to the South China Morning Post newspaper’s “Greatfire.org” website, which monitors censorship, the Washington Post and Guardian’s websites have been used by the Beijing administration to filter out international software, called “Great Wall of Fire,” participated in publications.
The report stated that both websites could not be accessed within the country since the weekend. While the Chinese authorities have not made a statement on the issue, the measure is expected to be an extension of the 30th anniversary of the bloody suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
US broadcasters CNN employees, Tiananmen incidents due to the file prepared by the news of the web site because of the news announced the week was blocked. Authorities have banned the use of keywords and photos related to the event at the popular messaging app and social media platform WeChat.
In China, access to media such as Bloomberg, The New York Times, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, as well as social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Whatsapp, has been barred for years.
China, “Great Wall of Fire” software with access to more than 10 thousand domain names on the Internet, while blocking the access to these disabled sites from private virtual network servers (VPN) is developing with the capacity to improve artificial intelligence algorithms.
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