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, an organization for freedom of expression based in China. According to users, the service is still out of service today.
"I think the government is just trying to further reduce Google's presence in China and weaken its overseas markets her" pointed out a member of GreatFire.org, who uses a pseudonym. “Imagine Gmail users not being able to contact Chinese customers. Many outside China will be forced to leave Google's email service."
Google's transparency report, which shows the traffic into a services Google's real-time app 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 recalled that the country has the most sophisticated Internet censorship mechanism in the world, also known as the "Great Firewall of China". Critics speak of deliberate obstruction of foreigners online services within the year with the aim of creating an Internet cut off from the rest of the world.
Erl Zimjevski, her executive Dyn Research, confirmed at Mashable that an "IP-level" block in Gmail has taken place. "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
