China blocked Google mail

China has blocked mail service Gmail Google. It was another step in the ban on the products and services of the American company. The difficulties of the search engine in the Chinese market started in early June.

The website of the Chinese human rights organization GreatFire said lock 26 December. Statistics Google approves of it, demonstrating the "collapse" of Internet traffic mail service Gmail specifically with this date.

Consequently, the Chinese government can reduce the presence of Google in their own market. Users will need to switch to other services.

Lock happened within the country's "Great Chinese firewall" - the unofficial title of the "Golden shield", which controls the Network of China, blocking and stopping the operation of external services. Filtering Internet traffic will not apply to special administrative regions Hong Kong and Macao: in these 2 cities Network access is free.

So, at the moment, the inhabitants of China are not able to use e-mail, located on the servers of Google, informs Reuters. The company began to experience difficulties in China in June. Then essentially collapsed the traffic the search engine, and were blocked several services firm. But access to Gmail then remained.

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