List Of Websites Blocked In The People's Republic Of China
More than 2600 websites are or were blocked in mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) under the country's policy of Internet censorship. This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites. This page does not apply to the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, where most of the Chinese laws do not apply.
According to a recent report from Beijing, a lot of larger Japanese websites were blocked during the afternoon of 15 June 2012 (UTC+08:00) to the morning of 17 June 2012 (UTC+08:00), such as Google Japan, Yahoo! Japan, Amazon Japan, Excite, Yomiuri News, Sponichi News and Nikkei BP Japan.
Also note that many of the sites listed may be occasionally or even regularly available, depending on the access location or current events.
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