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Why China blocks WikiLeaks website?

by Guest5199  |  12 years, 7 month(s) ago

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Large number of websites with names similar to WikiLeaks are also being blocked in china.  apparently as insurance that no Web site that includes Wiki in the name gets through including the popular Wikipedia. I want to know that why China is blocking Wiki

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  1. Guest3680

     China, one of the biggest Internet policers, took no chances with the latest online sensation and blocked the WikiLeaks website Wednesday amid potentially embarrassing claims made in leaked US diplomatic memos posted there.


    Attempts to access wikileaks.org and cablegate.wikileaks.org were met with a notice saying the connection had been reset, or were diverted the user to popular Chinese search engine Baidu. That's the standard response when the connection to an overseas-based website has been cut.


    The US Embassy memos _ called cables, though they are mostly encrypted electronic communication _ contain some frank talk about and attributed to Chinese figures and their North Korean allies.


    In one, a Chinese diplomat is quoted describing North Korea as a ``spoiled child'' for attempting to win US attention with a provocative missile test

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