China Disrupts Google Services

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Google services are being disrupted in China ahead of this week?s 25th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing?s Tiananmen Square, a censorship watchdog said on Monday.

GreatFire.org said in a blog post that the government appeared to have begun targeting Google Inc?s main search engine and Gmail, among many other services, since at least last week, making them inaccessible to many users in China.

It added that the last time it monitored such a block was in 2012, when it only lasted 12 hours.

"It is not clear that the block is a temporary measure around the anniversary or a permanent block. But because the block has lasted for four days, it?s more likely that Google will be severely disrupted and barely usable from now on," the advocacy group said.

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