Google Blames China for Blocking Gmail
After a lull, the conflict between Google and the Chinese government seems to have flared up again. A Google spokesperson leveled accusations against the Chinese government blaming them for interrupting the Gmail service for almost an entire month.
According to Google, Chinese Gmail users regularly complained of disruptions in service during this period, which coincided with political trouble in Middle Eastern countries such as Tunisia and Egypt (also known as the “Jasmine Revolution”). During this same period, there were also cases of Chinese people living overseas who were calling for similar protests in China.
The Google spokesperson also claimed that there was no technical issue on Google’s side with reference to the service disruptions and that the blockage was “carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.”
Problems between China and Google had reached a peak in January of last year when Google had declared that they would no longer be willing to censor search results leading to a war of words with the Chinese government.
After a lull, the conflict between Google and the Chinese government seems to have flared up again. A Google spokesperson leveled accusations against the Chinese government blaming them for interrupting the Gmail service for almost an entire month.
According to Google, Chinese Gmail users regularly complained of disruptions in service during this period, which coincided with political trouble in Middle Eastern countries such as Tunisia and Egypt (also known as the “Jasmine Revolution”). During this same period, there were also cases of Chinese people living overseas who were calling for similar protests in China.
The Google spokesperson also claimed that there was no technical issue on Google’s side with reference to the service disruptions and that the blockage was “carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.”
Problems between China and Google had reached a peak in January of last year when Google had declared that they would no longer be willing to censor search results leading to a war of words with the Chinese government.
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