List of websites blocked in mainland China

This is a list of notable websites blocked in mainland China. This page does not apply to Hong Kong and Macau as they have a policy of one country, two systems.

Table of high-ranking websites blocked in mainland China

+ Website  Domain  URL  Category  Primary language  Duration of blockage  Current status Googlegoogle.com  www.google.comdrive.google.comchat.google.comscholar.google.com  Search  Multilingual  2010–present Blocked Poe poe.com  www.poe.com  Artificial Intelligence  Multilingual  Unknown  Blocked  YouTubeyoutube.com  www.youtube.com Video  Multilingual 2007 - 2008, 2009–present BlockedVimeo vimeo.com  www.vimeo.com video Sharing  Multilingual  Facebookfacebook.com  www.facebook.com  Social  Multilingual  July (or earlier) 2009–present BlockedYahoo yahoo.com  yahoo.com  Search  Multilingual    28 February 2021 – present  Unblocked (Service Not Available)Yahoo Japan yahoo.co.jp  yahoo.co.jp  Search  Japanese    June 15 -  17, 2012 and September 2017 -present  Partial blocked (Service Not Available) Wikipedia wikipedia.org  wikipedia.org  Encyclopedia  Multilingual  23 April 2019 – present Blocked Marxists Internet Archive marxists.org  marxists.org  Encyclopedia  Multilingual  About 2005–no later than 2007 Unblocked Reddit  reddit.com  www.reddit.com   Social Multilingual   2018–present Blocked XING  xing.com  www.xing.com   Social Multilingual   2011–present Accessing the website via HTTPS Fandomfandom.com community.fandom.comEncyclopediaMultilingual2022–present Partially blocked, sometimes can be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible Netflix netflix.com  www.netflix.com  Entertainment Multilingual 2012–present Unblocked (Service Not Available) Zoom  zoom.us  zoom.us  Videotelephony English  9 September to November 2019  Unblocked Blogspot blogspot.com  blogspot.com Blog English  May 2009–present Blocked Bing bing.com  bing.com  Search  Multilingual  23 to 24 January 2019 Unblocked (Service Not Available, redirects to Chinese version - cn.bing.com) Instagram Instagram.com  www.Instagram.com  Image SharingMultilingual  September 2014–present BlockedWhatsAppwhatsapp.comwhatsapp.comMessagingMultilingualSeptember 2017–presentBlocked Twitch twitch.tv  twitch.tv  Streaming  English  17 September 2018–present  BlockedRobloxroblox.comroblox.comGamingMultilingualDecember 2021 – presentBlocked
(Chinese version currently deprecated)Equestria Dailyequestriadaily.comwww.equestriadaily.comOnline CommunityEnglishApril 2022 – August 2023 and August 2023 – presentPartially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessibleSteam Storestore.steampowered.comstore.steampowered.comEntertainmentMultilingual25 December 2021–presentPartially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessibleSteam Communitysteamcommunity.comsteamcommunity.comSocialMultilingual15 December 2017–presentBlockedSpotifyspotify.comspotify.comMusic streamingMultilingual7 October 2008–presentUnblocked (Service Not Available)Messengermessenger.commessenger.comMessagingMultilingualAugust 2011–presentBlocked Xx.com  x.com  Social  English  June 2009–presentBlockedLinkedInlinkedin.comlinkedin.comSocialMultilingualOctober 2021–present Blocked (Separate Chinese version exists)Skypeskype.comskype.comSocialMultilingualNovember 2017–unknown Unblocked Tumblr tumblr.com  tumblr.com  Social  English  25 May 2016–present  Blocked Pinterest pinterest.com  pinterest.com Image sharing Multilingual  March 2017–present BlockedSoundCloudSoundCloud.comSoundCloud.comMusic streamingMultilingualSeptember 2013–present BlockedSignal Private Messengersignal.orgsignal.orgInstant messagingMultilingualMarch 16, 2021 – presentBlockedDropboxdropbox.comdropbox.comFile sharingMultilingualMay 2010 – February 2014; June 2014 – present Blocked Pornhub pornhub.com  www.pornhub.com  Pornography  English  2012, May to 2016, April, to present BlockedXVideosxvideos.comxvideos.comPornography videosEnglishUnknown – present Blocked Medium medium.com  medium.com  News  English  2016, 15 April to present  Blocked Dailymotion dailymotion.com  dailymotion.com  Sharing  English  2007, 11 April to present  Blocked BBC bbc.co.uk (or bbc.com)  bbc.co.uk (or bbc.com)  News and broadcasting  English  2014, 15 October to present  Blocked The New York Times nytimes.com  nytimes.com  Publication  English  2012 to present  Blocked Vimeo vimeo.com  www.vimeo.com  Sharing  English  2009, October, Shanghaiist to present Blocked The Guardian theguardian.com  theguardian.com  News  English  June 2019 to present  Blocked SlideShare slideshare.net  slideshare.net   English  June 2012 to present  Blocked Discord discord.com  discord.com  Messaging  Multilingual  2018, 13 July to present Blocked DeviantArt deviantart.com  www.deviantart.com  Art display  English  2008, 15 December to present  Blocked The Washington Post washingtonpost.com  washingtonpost.com  News  English  June 2019 to present Blocked Nico Video nicovideo.jp  nicovideo.jp  Sharing  Japanese  Unknown to present  Blocked Archive.org (Internet Archive)  archive.org  www.archive.org Web archiving English  2011, April (or earlier) to Present Blocked Bloomberg bloomberg.com  bloomberg.com  Publication  English  2012, July to present  Blocked Flickr flickr.com  flickr.com  Sharing  English  2007, 7 June to present  Blocked Wretch wretch.cc  www.wretch.cc  Blog  Chinese  2007, August to 2012China blocks public access to Taiwan’s blog portal sites , China Post, 5 January 2008. Blocked (discontinued) HuffPost huffpost.com  huffpost.com  News  English  June 2019 to present Blocked The Wall Street Journal wsj.com  wsj.com  News  English  No later than 22 September 2015 to present Blocked DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com  duckduckgo.com  Search  English  2014, September to present  BlockedScratch scratch.mit.edu scratch.mit.edu Programming, SharingMultilingual 2020, 14 August to present Partially Blocked (Not accessible) Reuters reuters.com  reuters.com  News  English  2015, 20 March, to present  Blocked NBC News nbcnews.com  www.nbcnews.com  News  English  June 2019 to present Blocked TIMEtime.comtime.comNewsEnglish 2016. 9 April to present Blocked Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) cbc.ca  www.cbc.ca  News and broadcasting  English  2014 to present  Blocked Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) www.abc.net.au  www.abc.net.au  News and broadcasting  English  2018, 22 August to present  Blocked Bandcamp bandcamp.com  www.bandcamp.com  Music  English  2021, February to present  Blocked Technorati  technorati.com  www.technorati.com  Search  English  2008, July to Present BlockedArchive of Our Ownarchiveofourown.orgarchiveofourown.orgFanfictionMultilingual2020, March, to present Blocked Viber viber.com  viber.com  Messaging  Multilingual  2014, October to present  Blocked South China Morning Post scmp.com  scmp.com  News  English  2016 to present  Blocked Plurk plurk.com  www.plurk.com  Social  Multilingual  2009, April to Present Blocked The Economisteconomist.comeconomist.comNewsEnglishApril 2016 – present Blocked ABC  abc.es www.abc.es  News  Spanish 29 November 2021 – present  Blocked Voice of America voanews.com  www.voanews.com  News  English  Unknown – present  Blocked Radio Free Asia rfa.org  rfa.org  News, broadcasting  Multilingual  Unknown – present  Blocked NBC nbc.com  nbc.com  Broadcasting  English  June 2019 – present Blocked PBworks pbworks.com  pbworks.com  Sharing  English  January 2011 – present"The dilemma presented by China’s content filtering of my current handouts website" , retrieved 13 July 2010. Blocked The Epoch Times theepochtimes.com  www.theepochtimes.com  News  English  2003–present  Blocked The Epoch Times (Chinese edition)  epochtimes.com  www.epochtimes.com  News  Chinese  1999–present Blocked HBO hbo.com  www.hbo.com  Entertainment  English  June 2018 – present  Blocked WION wionews.com  www.wionews.com  News  English  July 2020 – present  Blocked Hong Kong Free Press  hongkongfp.com  hongkongfp.com  News  English  November 2015 – present  Blocked Apple Daily  appledaily.com  appledaily.com  News  English  Unknown – 2021 and unknown – present  Blocked  TikTok  tiktok.com  www.tiktok.com  Social  Multilingual  June 2020 – present  Blocked ChatGPT  openai.com  chatgpt.com
chat.openai.comapi.openai.com Artificial Intelligence  Multilingual  2023–present  BlockedRockstar Gamesrockstargames.comwww.rockstargames.comGamingMultilingualUnknown–present Blocked GitHub  github.com  www.github.com  Web tools  Multilingual  June 2020 – present  Partially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible Hugging Face  huggingface.co  huggingface.co  Artificial Intelligence  Multilingual  2023–present  BlockedFlipkartflipkart.comwww.flipkart.comOnline ShoppingMultilingualUnknown–presentBlockedZomatozomato.comwww.zomato.comFood ServiceEnglishUnknown–presentBlockedClubhouseclubhouse.comwww.clubhouse.comSocialEnglishFebruary 2021 – presentBlockedSwiggyswiggy.comwww.swiggy.comFood ServiceEnglishUnknown–presentBlockedTruth Socialtruthsocial.comwww.truthsocial.comSocial MediaEnglishFebruary 2022 – presentBlockedNational Weather Serviceweather.govwww.weather.govWeatherEnglishUnknownUnblockedKanzhongguo
(English)visiontimes.comwww.visiontimes.comNewspaperEnglishUnknown-presentBlockedKanzhongguo
(Chinese)secretchina.comwww.secretchina.com
pdf.secretchina.comNewspaperChineseUnknown-presentBlockedMicrosoft CopilotCopilot.microsoft.comCopilot.microsoft.comArtificial IntelligenceMultilingualOctober 2024 – presentBlockedTelegramtelegram.orgtelegram.orgMessagingMultilingualJuly 2015 – presentBlockedVoice of America
(Chinese)voachinese.comwww.voachinese.comNewspaperChineseUnknown-presentBlockedTeacher Li Is Not Your Teacher
(by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)lilaoshibushinilaoshi.comlilaoshibushinilaoshi.comBlogChineseJune About 2023-presentBlockedGrammarlygrammarly.comhttp://grammarly.com/Grammar and Spelling CheckerEnglishUnknownPartially blocked (sometimes can be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible) due to legal issues and inconsistencies with reCAPTCHA, which Grammarly uses to reset password.  ReCAPTCHA has difficulty functioning when logged out of Google, and Google is blocked in China.
website list (in ABC order) (incomplete)
www.abc.net.au 
www.archive.org
www.bbc.com
www.bloomberg.com
www.cbc.ca
ChatGPT
www.cia.gov
www.dailymotion.com
www.deviantart.com
www.discord.com
www.economist.com
	www.epochtimes.com
www.facebook.com and www.messenger.com
www.flickr.com
www.foxnews.com
Gboard, Gmail and Google Maps
www.hbo.com
www.huffpost.com
www.independent.co.uk
www.instagram.com
www.lemonde.fr https://freedomhouse.org/country/france/beijings-global-media-influence/2022
www.linkedin.com
www.nbc.com
www.nbcnews.com
www.netflix.com
New Tang Dynasty Television
Sound of Hope (希望之声)
www.nytimes.com
www.pornhub.com
www.pinterest.com
www.quora.com
www.reddit.com
www.reuters.com
www.rfa.org
www.scmp.com
www.soundcloud.com
www.spotify.com
www.telegram.orgIs Telegram blocked in China?
www.theguardian.com
www.tiktok.com
www.time.com
www.tumblr.com
www.twitch.tv
www.twitter.com
www.viber.com
www.vimeo.com
www.voa.gov
www.washingtonpost.com
www.whatsapp.com
www.wikileaks.org
www.wikimedia.org and www.wikipedia.org
www.wsj.com
www.xvideos.com
www.youtube.com

References

Other websites
Chinese Firewall Test - Instantly test if a URL is blocked by the Great Firewall of China in real time.  Tests for both symptoms of DNS poisoning and HTTP blocking from a number of locations within mainland China.
China Firewall Test - Test if any domain is DNS poisoned in China in real-time. DNS poisoning is one way in which websites can be blocked. Others are IP blocking and keyword filtering.
China Firewall Test - Test your website from real browsers in China. You can review performance reports and waterfall charts for further analysis and element-by-element performance detail from multiple locations.
China Firewall and Compliance Test - Test if the Great Firewall of China blocks your site in real-time. Also, check if your domain has the ICP license required by the Ministry of China to host web content inside the Firewall

The Research of China Media Control and Development of Cultural Industries - 2011 thesis written by a Taiwanese.

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