http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/03/15/china-gmail-problems-may-be-caused-by-great-firewall-upgrades/
This article is about China's continuing drive to censor information on the web. Unlike earlier blockings however this time they are targeting Gmail, a direct link between people. Not content to simply censor information sensitive to the Chinese government, they now are attempting to block the personal correspondence of the Chinese people. This came to light when many people on the Gmail site in China were experiencing difficulties in accessing their personal accounts. Google responded by saying that any problems with access was most likely due to the governments interference with their internet. Although such censorship is abhorred to us, to the Chinese the previous censoring might not have been a terrible inconvienience; this new attempt at censorship however, seems to much even for the Chinese populace to live with.
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