Talk:List of websites blocked in mainland China

message: YouTube is fully blocked in all of mainland China and will be for the foreseeable future.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex (talk • contribs) 09:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you watch this video in China? Thanks.--Altromercato 21:31, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The video cannot be watched.The page would be blocked by the Great firewall of China automatically for it has some sensitive words.But if there are only some numbers like"1989.6.4" on the page,the video can be watched no matter content is "sensitive" or not.--Gzdavidwong 14:19, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

text: YouTube is unreachable from my China NetCom connection. Beijing, October 29th 2007  213.246.227.244 04:57, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: YouTube

message: most of the sites on the list were verified using http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/. 
However greatfirewallofchina's test is no longer available (August 20, 2010). From the Web site: "Because of the ever stricter measures of censorship China imposes on the Internet, the team of www.greatfirewallofchina.org at present can no longer vouch for the reliability of its test tool. We have therefore decided to take the test tool offline."
Other comments relate to greatfirewallofchina while the test was still operating:  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.19.151 (talk) 22:46, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: GreatFireWallofChina appears to be malfunctioning (or China is interfering with their process). Use WebSitePulse instead.--Daveswagon 17:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: greatfirewallofchina.org is unreliable

message: Wikipedia seems to be fully accessible from the hotel I am staying in (Beijing). June 30th 2013  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.193.92.18 (talk) 10:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia

message: I'm getting a little wary about this site. The English Wikipedia was not blocked. The Chinese Wikipedia was not blocked. And, astonishingly, the Democratic Party of China was not blocked. I also verified with Seattle, WA on this. Seattle was slower on one test, much slower, actually. --Blah2 (talk) 02:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WebSitePulse results

message: * Falun Dafa related websites are blocked in China, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/ Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China; http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/china0806/5.htm How Multinational Internet Companies assist Government Censorship in China; --HappyInGeneral (talk) 12:27, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand

message: Why is this under Governments and political parties? Better question: Why is a horse racing site supportive of the 2008 Olympics even on this list? Is there something wrong with that source? HanBoN (talk) 05:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the club makes charitable donations to public charities that are not approved by the government. I don't know if that's why it's in the government party section, you can move it if you want. I don't currently understand it's notability or why it's listed.--Sparkygravity (talk) 19:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hong Kong Jockey Club

message: Because of the olympic games, it seems like the PRC has unblocked a great majority of websites. This list needs to be updated. This post is from a residential PRC connection. 221.218.171.224 (talk) 10:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unblocked sites

message: My only source is the Journals made by large amounts of Chinese users, but according to them deviantART will be blocked by tomorrow (Jan 24 2009). 71.179.46.39 (talk) 20:09, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: deviantART

message: I noticed one of the sites listed under the "Blogging, vlogging, and web hosting services." Was a site called PMSbuddy.com, a site for women to keep track of their periods. Not only is this site unsourced, but there's also a link included with it. I find it very hard to believe that China would block a site like that. Is it possible that someone from the site decided to use this page for advertising? –Nahald (talk) 16:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: PMSbuddy.com

message: do the websites under the "previously blocked" section really need to each say "(now unblocked)" after every example? 139.222.194.233 (talk) 22:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would not say so, I think that would be silly and useless. SilvestertheCat (talk) 16:41, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: "Previously Blocked"

message: Hi, I noticed that some websites are being blocked in the Serbian part of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) and i wonder if there's some kind of tool available to systematically check urls if they work or not. The websites being blocked are GeenStijl and the related Dumpert.nl, both being Dutch (which is remarkably, and thats also why i think there must be a lot more) -- eiland (talk) 13:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Republika Srpska

message: When I was in Beijing, I went on this page to check the sites that where blocked, but it always loaded halfway. Then, I refreshed the page and it wouldn't load, but every other wikipedia page worked. I think it should be put here. 86.163.103.108 (talk) 00:30, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: This page

message: Right; Facebook will never be unblocked in China, it is far too dangerous to the PRC to ever allow.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex (talk • contribs) 09:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: why is facebook.com not on your list

message: The page claims to list "the most notable .. blocked websites" in China. I found that many of the websites listed were either not currently blocked (such as www.google.com, www.nobelprize.org ect), or not notable (Radio Canada International, United Nations News etc). I changed the approach to a table sorted by the websites Alexa rank (hence the most notable first). I also only include websites with a source showing it's blocked. I'm happy to discuss/adapt the approach to fit better with Wikipedia standards. Also, the list is far complete and I will add more entries. If you have sources showing when a website was blocked, earlier than 2011, please add.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreatFireChina (talk • contribs) 10:59, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an explanation at Help:Tables I think. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Major changes (May 16, 2012)

message: The following websites were blocked during the afternoon of 15 June 2012 (UTC+08:00) to the morning of 17 June 2012 (UTC+08:00). Since such websites have been unblocked as of this time, I've removed them from the table.
Alexa Rank	Domain         	Website         	URL            	Category    	Primary language	Blocked since
16        	yahoo.co.jp    	Yahoo! Japan    	yahoo.co.jp    	Portal      	Japanese        	2012, June 15
21        	google.co.jp   	Google Japan    	google.co.jp   	Search      	Japanese        	2012, June 15
79        	rakuten.co.jp  	Rakuten Market  	rakuten.co.jp  	Shopping    	Japanese        	2012, June 15
94        	amazon.co.jp   	Amazon Japan    	amazon.co.jp   	Shopping    	Japanese        	2012, June 15
564       	yomiuri.co.jp  	Yomiuri News    	yomiuri.co.jp  	Publication 	Japanese        	2012, June 15
628       	excite.co.jp   	Excite          	excite.co.jp   	Portal      	Japanese        	2012, June 15
633       	sponichi.co.jp 	Sponichi News   	sponichi.co.jp 	Publication 	Japanese        	2012, June 15
660       	nikkeibp.co.jp 	Nikkei BP Japan 	nikkeibp.co.jp 	Publication 	Japanese        	2012, June 15
4480      	sony.co.jp     	Sony Japan      	sony.co.jp     	Corporation 	Japanese        	2012, June 15
22196     	sonymusic.co.jp	Sony Music Japan	sonymusic.co.jp	Record label	Japanese        	2012, June 15
Thanks, 125.33.255.90 (talk) 06:59, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Websites blocked during 15 June 2012 to 17 June 2012

message: I'm currently travelling in China and are surfing the net from a cybercafe and every site on this list I can access just fine. Great firewall my ass! And someone tell me how to insert my ip in here so you all can check. (Woofenstein (talk) 19:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Accuracy of the information in this page

message: I argue that first of all all the sites blocked in the past are not notable enough for it to be listed. In addition, if there is an ethical reason to list all the sites blocked in the past, I say the World Wide Web did not come into being until at least 1990, so why not list all the sites as unavailable before 1990... for the sake of ethics? And of course, there is always an archive to be explored.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.244.13.79 (talk) 13:58, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Does this page only list sites blocked at the present?

message: New York Times website is blocked in China due to it's reporting of Wen JiaBao's family financial gains while he was in office. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex  (talk • contribs) 06:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: New York Times

message: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex  (talk • contribs) 06:36, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: This list is ridiculous to try to maintain as it constantly changes. The PRC blocks new websites every single day.

message: I was in Shanghai this summer before Wikimania and, while surfing from the hotel's business center, observed the following effects of the GFW:
* Chinese Wikipedia: Completely blocked. Attempting to access any URL beginning zh.wikipedia.org gives you the briefest flicker of what you were expecting to see, then that page in Chinese which gives you that line about how you can't access the page at this time.
* English Wikipedia: Selectively blocked. Can be read and edited as long as you're picking innocuous articles. I did tickle the dragon's feet by looking for Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China, which now redirects to Censorship of Wikipedia#China. This is readable. But if you then click on the hatnote for Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China, you're asking for it, and the same thing happens as when you try to edit zhwiki. In addition you will get that same screen for a few minutes when you try to view anything else on enwiki.
* English Wikivoyage: Not blocked at all, as far as I could tell. I made this edit from the hotel. Daniel Case (talk) 16:51, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia not totally blocked

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replies: text: I think the point of this bot picked up an important point :). This page is not about listing globally blocked sites particularly is it? Or perhaps there are a few categories of blocked sites. Political censorship, commercial blocking (pirate bay), and inappropriate material.  Greg (talk) 08:10, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Blacklisted Links Found on the Main Page

message: It looks like China is progressively blocking all foreign search engines, 
first Google Search (and all other Google services) around April 2014, 
then www.startpage.com around July 2014, 
then www.duckduckgo.com since end of August 2014...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.157.180.62 (talk) 06:40, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Blocking of foreign search engines

message: Add it to the list. After China's attack on all Google services in 2nd June this year, Omegle got blocked soon thereafter.
116.236.205.123 (talk) 04:06, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Omegle

message: Just at last year! Mediafire had blocked in China. I tested.
114.240.119.226 (talk) 02:22, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Mediafire blocked, but it is not listed...

message: Them two also join the "China Club".
106.185.37.37 (talk) 22:17, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Those may be unblocked and can be accessed now, I am living in Canton now, tested with China Unicom LTE Network and China Telecom Boardband. They can be added in this artical, and marked as "blocked previously".--Porsche 911GT2 (talk) 16:34, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Onedrive and DeviantART (this time for real)

message: Tumblr is also blocked.
At least from Baeijing I couldn't have accessed it anytime. I have tried several times.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.183.139.215 (talk) 12:10, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: TUMBLR

message: When I was on Facebook using a VPN, I saw Tsai Ing-Wen's post that Facebook was allegedly accessible from China (specifically Nanjing, from a laptop), and it was, however with some difficulties.
Lukas1321 (talk) 06:18, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Facebook accessible on 11 November 2015?

message: Substituted at 18:44, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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thread_title: External links modified

message: Hi, could anybody point me to a site where I can get the alexa rank of a website in order to add the domain to this table?
Thanks.
Quasipodo (talk) 10:08, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Where can I get the Alexa rank from

message: Sigh 36.40.14.51 (talk) 02:52, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Damn  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amoymonarch (talk • contribs) 12:58, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Discord is blocked in China since the evening of 2018-7-13 (UTC+8)

message: As of July 2018 it appears to be reblockedAmoymonarch (talk) 13:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Deviantart

message: Looks like wikia was banned in China...... But it doesn't.
117.22.21.121 (talk) 23:28, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikia

message: Both of them are not blocked in China.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samweithe4 (talk • contribs) 08:31, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikia and Deviantart

message: Canadian broadcast company's all services, Reuters all sites have been blocked since 2014. 116.16.121.71 (talk) 01:26, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 13:48, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Semi-protected edit request on 22 October 2018

message: man, i saw that nintendo.com is banned in china LucianoTheWindowsFan (talk) 23:12, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Nintendo

message: I am in mainland China and I do not have a VPN, but somehow I am granted access to en.m.wikipedia.org! —--Ný(rönn)-Holtredéþch-Deskrúð / NyholtredehnDiscussion! 11:57, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: This is really weird

message: A user came on IRC and said that they're in China, and Etsy is blocked - but they can't add this to the article themselvves because they're on a VPN. Anyone know a source we can cite? DS (talk) 03:46, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: what about...

message: Just as a note, if you can use a blocked website from this list in China, it may still be blocked. It seems to be that even if your phone shows a Chinese provider, as long as you're using roaming from the US SIM the websites are not blocked. Use a residential internet connection, if you want to be sure. AwesomestUser (talk) 19:22, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of other ISP in China

message: It seems that from yesterday evening 6 November (China time) the English Wikipedia has been unblocked in Mainland China? I live here, and starting from last night I was able to access enwiki without a VPN. Other versions of Wikipedia are still blocked though. Should I add this information on the article?
:No. According to greatfire.org, it has been 100% blocked since almost last year. ωικιωαrrιorᑫᑫ1ᑫ 17:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: English Wikipedia unblocked in Mainland China?

message: Unblock all blocked web sites and permantly block overseas continents outside the jurisdictions of United States of America of Justice and Freedom Rights as of imprinted  in Amendment Rights Caliswaggbae (talk) 23:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ??? ωικιωαrrιorᑫᑫ1ᑫ 12:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Add all mainlines back to appropriate subtitles

message: AO3 appears to have been blocked around February 28/29, so keep an eye out for any news coverage. PvOberstein (talk) 17:47, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . ωικιωαrrιorᑫᑫ1ᑫ 12:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Archive of Our Own (AO3)

message: The line "This page does not apply to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, where most of Chinese law does not apply." Should be changed to better represent how Taiwan is an independent nation and not part of the PRC. Currently wording makes it appear that Taiwan is in a similar situation to Hong Kong and Macau which is factually untrue.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucAce1997 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct, even aside from the island of Taiwan being a separate country, it indeed is a different legal situation to both Hong Kong and Macau; the current status is diferent between these three areas. Perhaps it may be better and simpler to omit the part "where most of Chinese law does not apply" altogether, at the least from that sentence. And explain differences elsewhere. It also depends on what is meant with "Chinese law" exactly, since the law in Hong Kong is not exactly identical to the law in Beijing, as an example. This is why it may be better to simply state that the page does not apply to xyz; but move the explanation elsewhere or change it. It should not be required to couple both in one sentence. 2A02:8388:1602:6D80:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 01:16, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Taiwan having unclear status in regards to independence

message: It has come to my attention that  began to edit this article and add citations to greatfire.org. This site is an anonymous blog and does not meet Wikipedia's standards for reliable secondary sources. I also removed some other obvious blogs and Reddit (a user-generated content forum site). Due to Wikipedia's standards of verifiability we need to make sure that the sources we cite are reliable. Thank you all for your concern. Elizium23 (talk) 02:17, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have tagged the article as it needs more references: the lion's share of the entries left behind are still unsourced. Elizium23 (talk) 02:11, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: A crappy source is better than nothing, no? { \mathbb{JPG} } 22:51, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreliable sources removed

message: Do we update the wiki page once a website's Alexa Rank goes up/down, or do we leave as it is?
Another option is that we put the original rank in brackets and leave it while we update the actual number.
ScratchyGamer314 (talk) 03:42, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Kind of a moot point now, it was announced that Amazon Alexa Ranking is permanently shutting down as of May 1st. See https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999. YborCityJohn (talk) 17:21, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Do we update the wiki page once a website's Alexa Rank goes up/down?

message: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter are currently given as "Partially blocked (available for highly educated and foreign tourists)". Each has the same reference, a South China Morning Post article from June 2018 about a local government plan on Hainan island to allow access for tourists. Even if this has gone into effect, our article as it stands suggests nationwide access for tourists. And the source says nothing about "highly educated"... Chinese people? Tourists? I don't know what the intent is here. With so many  tags in the article, I'm loath to just remove these, but it really needs more investigation. For now, I've changed the phrase to the more narrow "available for tourists in Hainan", but I don't even know if that is really accurate. --BDD (talk) 21:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: "Highly educated and foreign tourists"

message: reddit and pornhub are not blocked in China. can someone fix this? 96.5.248.100 (talk) 14:20, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. Could you please provide a citation saying so? Hank Benson (talk) 05:31, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reddit not blocked in China 

message: Apparently the provincial government never went through with their plan to unblock FB, Youtube, etc in 2018 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3464733--2601:646:8400:1ED0:E854:5059:62FC:6850 (talk) 06:21, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hainan  

message: I've found that yes the Blogger (blogger.com) and the Blogspot.com subdomains are only partially blocked in China, The Great Firewall of China owned and run by the the Mainland Chinese communist government is blocking the blogger.com and blogspot.com as well as the Blogspot Subdomains which cannot be accessed in Mainland China, however I've found something interesting if your blogspot.com subdomain is connected to a custom domain, i.e. www.example.com and even though it uses the same Google Name Servers, A, AAAA, CNAME records and other DNS settings sites as Blogspot the Blogger site becomes accessible in China using that custom domain. So it appears that they are blocking based on the domain name and not the IP Address or DNS information. YborCityJohn (talk) 03:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blogger / Blogspot is only Partially blocked 

message: I believe nbc.com is unblocked through my own experimentation and according to the Chinese version of this article. W dvd (talk) 08:09, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBC 

message: Websites critical of the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party, such as those of human rights groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch , and Freedom House, are also blocked. Hieuchipt (talk) 11:26, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add these websites that could be blocked in China