Rome – Since last Friday, December 27 until a few hours ago Chinese users of Gmail could not connect to their accounts in the country if not using tools such as VPN services, useful to mask your address IP.
If only now the service shows some signs of recovery in favor of local netizens, along with the general slowdown of other Google services, it is to emphasize that this is not an isolated incident: the last chance block occurred in June, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the events in Tiananmen Square.
There have been now for official communications and the Chinese Foreign Minister said that he knew nothing of the episode. The clues point once again, however, on the intervention of the Chinese authorities, which on the other hand have indirectly confirmed this accusation saying by state media that “Google is welcome in China if he intends to abide by Chinese laws.”
Mountain View, for its part, reported to have occurred and have not encountered any problems in their infrastructure.
According to analysts of Dyn Research the authorities would block certain IP addresses Hong Kong: Since 2009 Google has discontinued some of its services in China, not wanting to give in to the pressures of the censorship of the local government and has decided to transfer its servers from China to Hong Kong, so as to be close to Chinese users but outside the boundaries of the Great Wall Digital.
Claudio Tamburrino
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