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BBC website 'unblocked in
China'
BBC
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
People in China are reportedly able to access stories
on the BBC News website in full, after years of strict control
by the Beijing government.
Dubbed the great firewall of China, the Communist
government routinely blocks foreign news sites such as the BBC.
But BBC staff working in China now say they are able to access
news stories that would have been blocked before.
However, the firewall remains in place for Chinese language services
on the website and for any links in Chinese.
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Beijing has never admitted to blocking access to BBC news stories
- and there has been no official confirmation that the website
has been unblocked.
Tibet difficulties
Chinese users trying to access pages on the site have almost
always been redirected to an error message telling them: "The
connection was reset."
It now appears that this is no longer the case, and access to
the site is much easier.
The Chinese media website Danwei reported that BBC news output
was now available to users "without hindrance".
The BBC website's statisticians say traffic from China on Tuesday
has been much higher than usual.
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