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CHINA BANS THE INTERCEPT AND OTHER NEWS SITES IN ...

• https://theintercept.com, Ryan Gallagher

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT appears to have launched a major new internet crackdown, blocking the country's citizens from accessing The Intercept's website and those of at least seven other Western news organizations.

On Friday, people in China began reporting that they could not access the websites of The Intercept, The Guardian, the Washington Post, HuffPost, NBC News, the Christian Science Monitor, the Toronto Star, and Breitbart News.

It is unclear exactly when the censorship came into effect or the reasons for it. But Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and Chinese authorities have reportedly increased levels of online censorship to coincide with the event.

Charlie Smith, co-founder of GreatFire.org, an organization that monitors Chinese government internet censorship, said that the apparent crackdown on Western news sites represented a significant new development and described it as a "censorship Black Friday."


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