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Gmail is a mess in China after months of trouble, with some indicating that it is responsible for this "Great Firewall," as reported by Reuters.gmail

Large number of addresses gmail were blocked in China on Friday, according to GreatFire.org, for freedom of expression based in China. According to users, the service is still down and today is Monday.

"I think the government is just trying to further reduce Google's presence in China and weaken its overseas markets," said a member of GreatFire.org, who uses a pseudonym. “Imagine Gmail users not being able to contact Chinese customers. Many out will be forced to leave Google's email service."

Google's transparency report, which shows traffic to Google services in real time, showed a sharp in Gmail traffic from China on Friday. "We've checked and there's nothing wrong on our end," a Google representative in Singapore said via email.

Problems have been noted in almost all of Google's services in China since June, but until last week Gmail users could see emails downloaded through protocols like IMAP, SMTP, and POP3.

It is reminded that the country has the world's most sophisticated Internet censorship mechanism, also known as the Great Firewall of China. Critics say it deliberately hinders foreign online services in the year with the goal of creating an Internet detached from the rest of the world.

Erl Zimjevski, her executive Dyn Research, confirmed to Mashable that an “IP-» block in Gmail. "China has a number of ways in which it can block material. One of the coarsest is simply blocking an IP address, and when you do that, you block all the material available to IP, "he said.

Source: naftemporiki.gr

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