China Reinstates Wikipedia Ban

Rob T Firefly writes "The International Herald Tribute reports that the lifting of China's Wikipedia ban earlier this week was short-lived. Wikipedia is once again inaccessible from behind the Great Firewall, along with all other Wikimedia projects. Additionally, the URL of Chinese Wikipedia is once again a banned search term. No reason has yet been given for any of it." From the article: "It wasn't immediately clear if Wikipedia was inaccessible due to technical glitches or because government censors had blocked the site again. The Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Information Industry did not immediately respond when contacted for comment Friday. Beijing blocked access to the English and Chinese versions of Wikipedia in October last year, apparently out of concern about entries touching on the country's sensitive spots -- Tibet, Taiwan and other topics."

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[riff420]

China sucks! Hoytie in 2008!

Re:Could be....

[silentounce]

And the people pounding on the doors of avid Chinese wiki users could be Avon ladies.

Re:Never ascribe to malice...

[silentounce]

"According to the Chinese delegate to the conference in Greece two weeks ago no sites are blocked."

Wow, China is more liberal with the internet than my employer. Maybe I'll move there, I hear Tiananmen Square is lovely in June.

pool's over

[brunascle]

alright, you heard him, pool's over. who had 2 days?

Too much vandalism

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like they were vandalizing it by replacing all of the text with ?'s anyways...

Re:Could be....

[businessnerd]

Chinese Gov: What? You mean you can't access the site? Oh we're terribly sorry, there must be a technical problem. We have identified the problem and we are working on it. Expect to be back on Wikipedia in six to eight years.

Re:Ascribing malice to Bush, lapping up Communist

[IflyRC]

Right, if John Kerry and John Edwards had have been elected, China would never have restricted Wikipedia in the first place.