Wired.com, the sister site to the awesome magazine, Wired, has reportedly been blocked in China. While the magazine has been unable to confirm this independently a report from Examiner.com suggests users from Bejing to Shanghi have been unable to connect to the site since Friday.
You can see the news from Wired here but I’ve also reposted the entire story after the link. If you are in China and can confirm this directly with Wired, please do so by e-mailing them.
Chinese authorities have begun blocking Chinese internet users from reading Wired.com, according to a report from the Examiner.
Internet users from Beijing to Shanghai found the site inaccessible starting Friday, reports Glenn Loveland, the Examiner’s Beijing correspondent. The block adds Wired.com to a long list of sites that are or have been considered too dangerous for Chinese net users.
Current blacklist members and alumni include YouTube, Facebook, the BBC, Wikipedia, Google and most recently, IMDB, an encyclopedic movie information site. China’s censorship of the net is in constant flux, aided by sets of powerful firewalls marketed to the Communist government by Western technology companies.
We’re not sure if we are supposed to give an acceptance speech or file an official complaint in triplicate at the Ministry of Proper Online Thought.
Wired.com was not notified of the block and has not been able to confirm it independently. If you are based in China, we’d appreciate you letting us know in the comments or by e-mail if you can’t load the site without having to use a proxy or censorship evasion tools like Tor. Another easy way to report this block or others is to use the Berkman Center’s Herdict tool.
Wired.com editors are hard at work trying to figure out what we did to earn a spot on the blacklist. Was it our wall-to-wall CES coverage? Or was it Wired.com’s critical coverage of Chinese internet censorship?
Wired.com is the online affiliate of Wired magazine. Both are owned by Condé Nast, a privately held publishing company based in New York that also publishes Vanity Fair, GQ and The New Yorker, among other titles.
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