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Censorship services have blocked access in China to email from Google, an additional step in the will of Beijing to establish its own "sovereignty" over the Internet.
Censorship services have blocked access in China to email from Google, Gmail, announced Monday, Dec. 29 experts, an additional step in the will of Beijing to establish its own "sovereignty" over the Internet.
Impediments to connect to Gmail in China are not new, nor the tensions between Google and Beijing, but these measures are complete blocking China's first courier in the world.
The ultimate access Gmail lanes have been closed in recent days, traffic connections between China and Google mail Friday accusing a sudden drop, according to data published by the "Google's Transparency Report".
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"We have conducted audits and there is nothing wrong on our side," he told AFP a spokesman for Google, based in Singapore.
This total blocking Gmail is part of an "attitude of increasingly aggressive (the authorities in Beijing) on what they call their sovereignty on the internet," said Jeremy Goldkorn, an expert of the Internet in China.
"These past two years have seen a steady strengthening of all forms of internet censorship" in China, added the editor of the news website danwei.org, also blocked in the country.
The CCP wants to muzzle the Internet
In 2014, the services of Google have in particular been seriously undermined as we approach the 25th anniversary of the crushing of the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement on June 4, 1989.
Beijing then further tightened the noose of censorship facing the Hong Kong people to revolt who demanded to be able to elect their governor in 2017 by universal suffrage full and complete.
Many Chinese netizens expressed their anger Monday, demanding an end to censorship to Gmail.
"The reason for the blocking Gmail are domestic political concerns. This shows how the current political situation is grim, "ruled one of them.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is used in effect to muzzle the Internet, which in recent years has played a role as powerful sounding board for criticism of the regime.
According to the measures adopted in September, Chinese Internet users face up to three years in prison for defamatory messages considered published over 500 times or accessed over 5,000 times.
Many Internet users and journalists were arrested this year and some of the most influential critics on social networks had to engage in humiliating "self-criticism" on television.
The Chinese authorities have furthermore established a sophisticated internet censorship, which is redacted politically sensitive sites, that can not organize dissent.
Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are blocked in the country, and many news sites.