Google says china is blocking emails

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Search giant Google on Monday accused the Chinese government of blocking its Gmail service in the country , after month-long online disruption that coincided with an internet campaign calling for protests like those in the Arab nations. <!-- more --> G o o g l e started getting complaints about interruptions in access to Gmail service ever since the "Jasmine" uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt last month, which subsequently spread to several other Gulf countries. While China blocked all information relating to these protests in Chinese language Internet services, used by over 457 million people, Google and Gmail services experienced periodic disruptions after overseas Chinese dissident groups started calling for similar protests in Chinese cities, which were put down with iron hand by Chinese police. The American search engine , which patched up with Chinese government after a p ro l o n g e d wrangle last year over periodic interference of its content with intrusive censors, said in a statement today that investigations carried out by it to look into recent disruptions found that there was no technical problem. "There is no issue on our side; we have checked extensively ," Google said in the statement . "This is a government blockage, carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail," it said. PTI

Search giant Google on Monday accused
the Chinese government of blocking its Gmail
service in the country , after month-long online
disruption that coincided with an internet
campaign calling for protests like those in the
Arab nations.
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G o o g l e started getting complaints about interruptions in access to Gmail
service ever since the "Jasmine" uprisings in
Tunisia and Egypt last month, which
subsequently spread to several other Gulf
countries. While China blocked all information relating to
these protests in Chinese language Internet
services, used by over 457 million people, Google
and Gmail services experienced periodic
disruptions after overseas Chinese dissident
groups started calling for similar protests in Chinese cities, which were put down with iron
hand by Chinese police. The American search engine , which patched up
with Chinese government after a p ro l o n g e d
wrangle last year over periodic interference of its
content with intrusive censors, said in a
statement today that investigations carried out
by it to look into recent disruptions found that there was no technical problem. "There is no issue on our side; we have checked
extensively ," Google said in the statement . "This
is a government blockage, carefully designed to
look like the problem is with Gmail," it said. PTI