{"id":9489,"date":"2010-12-13T16:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2010-12-13T16:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:57:55","slug":"bbcs-website-accessible-once-again-in-china-13122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/bbcs-website-accessible-once-again-in-china-13122010\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC’s website accessible once again in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"BBC’s website open to use in China after being blocked for several days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The blackout coincided with the award ceremony for this year’s Noble Peace Prize winner, the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.<\/p>\n

The website was blocked along with other international news sites.<\/p>\n

China’s government regularly blocks websites and censors internet search results inside the country.
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\nFurious reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Officials declined to comment on the initial blackout, and would not admit they were behind the move.<\/p>\n

But it is no secret that China operates what has been dubbed the “Great Firewall”, a series of initiatives that attempt to filter internet content.<\/p>\n

Some international websites, such as the site run by Human Rights Watch, are permanently inaccessible in China.<\/p>\n

Others, such as the BBC, are occasionally blocked, often when there is a major news event relating to China.<\/p>\n

In this latest incident the BBC’s English-language website was unavailable from the day before last week’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The BBC’s World News channel was also disrupted.<\/p>\n

Chinese officials reacted with fury when it was announced that dissident Liu Xiaobo, currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for inciting subversion, had won the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Peace Prize committee held a lavish ceremony to honour Mr Liu in Oslo last Friday.<\/p>\n

China appears to have done what it could to stop unfiltered news of the event reaching its own people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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