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.
Large number of addresses gmail were blocked in China on Friday, according to GreatFire.org, a China-based free-speech group. According to users, the service is still down modeand 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 GreatFire.org member who uses a pseudonym. "Imagine that Gmail users can not get in touch with Chinese customers. Many outside of China will be forced to leave Google's e-mail service. "
Google's transparency report, which shows the traffic in Google's real-time services, showed a sharp drop 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, επιβεβαίωσε στο Mashable that an "IP-level" block has taken place on Gmail. “China has a number of ways they can block material. One of the grossest is just blocking an IP address, and when you do that, you block all the stuff available in IP" he noted in this regard.
Source: naftemporiki.gr