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Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site -- after a year-long ban -- they reported Friday that it was blocked again in several ...

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This is sooooo frickin' predictable...

Now I'll have to go and find an emoticon image of a smiley-face that's yawning uncontrollably. Anybody have one? dry.gif

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Cnet Asia, CA - 3 hours ago
It was celebration time in China a month ago when a longstanding block on Wikipedia was finally lifted. Yes, there had always been ...

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China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived.



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San Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour ago
BEIJING (AP) - China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported ...

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Just a few short weeks after it was made available behind the Great Firewall of China, Wikipedia is no longer reachable. Has the Chinese government had a change of heart?

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Macon Telegraph, GA - 1 hour ago
BEIJING (AP) - China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported ...

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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - 2 hours ago
BEIJING (AP) - China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported ...

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Rob T Firefly writes "Wikinews reports that the lifting of China's Wikipedia ban earlier this week was short-lived. Wikipedia is once again inaccessible from behind the Great Firewall, along with all other Wikimedia projects. Additionally, the URL of Chinese Wikipedia is once again a banned search term. No reason has yet been given for any of it." From the article: "It wasn't immediately clear if

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Kansas.com, KS - 2 hours ago
BEIJING (AP) - China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported ...

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Rob T Firefly writes "Wikinews reports that the lifting of China's Wikipedia ban earlier this week was short-lived. Wikipedia is once again inaccessible from behind the Great Firewall, along with all other Wikimedia projects. Additionally, the URL of Chinese Wikipedia is once again a banned search term. No reason has yet been given for any of it." From the article: "It wasn't immediately clear if

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Hindu, India - 1 hour ago
Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site, after a yearlong ban, they on Friday reported that it was blocked again in several ...

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BEIJING, 9:14 a.m. Nov. 17 (AP): China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived.

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The easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia traffic in China was short-lived.

Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site — after a yearlong ban — they reported Friday that it was blocked again in several parts of China.



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Asia Pacific Media Network, CA - 43 minutes ago
Barely a week after Wikipedia users were able to access the website -- after a year-long ban -- they reported yesterday that it had been blocked again in ...

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The easing of a ban on a popular online encyclopedia on the mainland has been short-lived. Barely a week after Wikipedia users were able to access the website -- after a year-long ban -- they reported yesterday that it had been blocked again in several parts of the mainland.

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Times of India, India - 4 hours ago
Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site, after a year-long ban, they on Friday reported that it was blocked again in several ...

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ShortNews.com, Germany - 29 minutes ago
Beijing - The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has only been online for a week in China and already has been taken down again and is unavailable in several parts ...

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Last month, China began allowing access to the English version of Wikipedia to Internet users in that country, and the Chinese-language version was unblocked last week.



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Taipei Times, Taiwan - 2 hours ago
Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site -- after a yearlong ban -- they reported yesterday that it was blocked again in several ...

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Boston Globe, United States - 44 minutes ago
One week after gaining unfettered access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Chinese Internet users have been cut off from the service again. ...

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One week after gaining unfettered access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Chinese Internet users have been cut off from the service again.

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Tech2, India - 3 hours ago
China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported Friday that ...

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Rob T Firefly writes "The International Herald Tribute reports that the lifting of China's Wikipedia ban earlier this week was short-lived. Wikipedia is once again inaccessible from behind the Great Firewall, along with all other Wikimedia projects. Additionally, the URL of Chinese Wikipedia is once again a banned search term. No reason has yet been given for any of it." From the article: "It

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Wikipedia access in China short-lived Users have said that the site, that became available unexpectedly, has once again become inaccessible. Wikipedia's English page became available in China last month, while the Chinese language version became accessible last week. It wasn't immediately clear if lack of access to the site was due to technical problems, or a block by the government.

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p2pnet.net, Canada - 58 minutes ago
p2pnet.net News:- People in China had "unfettered" access the Wikipedia, said various reports yesterday. Access was not, of course ...

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The easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia in China was short-lived.

Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site -- after a year-long ban -- they reported Friday that it was blocked again in several parts of China.



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The easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia in China was short-lived.

Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site -- after a year-long ban -- they reported Friday that it was blocked again in several parts of China.



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Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 27 minutes ago
By Gillian Wong, AP. BEIJING -- China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. ...

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BEIJING -- China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported late last week that the site was unavailable in several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible.

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Barely a week after Wikipedia viewers were able to access the Web site -- after a year-long ban -- they reported on Friday that it was blocked again in several ...

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China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported Friday that the site was unavailable in several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible.

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Variety (subscription) - 26 minutes ago
By PATRICK FRATER. Online encyclopedia Wikipedia emerged from a yearlong ban in China last week to be accessed again by millions of Chinese Internet users. ...

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ONLINE encyclopaedia Wikipedia was switched off in China only a few days after it had been permitted by the country's censors.

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Inquirer, UK - 42 minutes ago
... 31. ONLINE encyclopaedia Wikipedia was switched off in China only a few days after it had been permitted by the country's censors. ...

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WebProNews, KY - 28 minutes ago
Only one week after the Chinese government released the ban placed on encyclopedia site Wikipedia, the ban appears to be back in effect. ...

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Only one week after the Chinese government released the ban placed on encyclopedia site Wikipedia, the ban appears to be back in effect. Wikipedia had only regained the ability to reach Chinese viewers with their free encyclopedia site one week ago, however the good news was short-lived. The site has been reportedly blocked in some parts of China again. Over a year ago the

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The Age, Australia - 20 minutes ago
China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported Friday that ...

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China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported that the site was unavailable in several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible.

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Portal IT, Romania - 2 hours ago
... According to reports from numerous Chinese Internet-users both the Chinese and the English versions of Wikipedia have become unavailable in China. Again. ...

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Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 2 hours ago
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MacNewsWorld, CA - 16 minutes ago
By Hiawatha Bray. Chinese Internet users have again been denied free access to the online encylopedia Wikipedia. Though Chinese authorities ...

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One week after gaining unfettered access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Chinese Internet users have been cut off from the service again. Andrew Lih, a former journalism professor at Hong Kong University who tracks censorship in China, wrote on his blog last week that people throughout the country are unable to contact Wikipedia.

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By Hiawatha Bray. Chinese Internet users have again been denied free access to the online encylopedia Wikipedia. Though Chinese authorities ...

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E-Commerce Times - 2 hours ago
By Hiawatha Bray. Chinese Internet users have again been denied free access to the online encylopedia Wikipedia. Though Chinese authorities ...

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By Hiawatha Bray. Chinese Internet users have again been denied free access to the online encylopedia Wikipedia. Though Chinese authorities ...

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TechNewsWorld, CA - 3 hours ago
By Hiawatha Bray. Chinese Internet users have again been denied free access to the online encylopedia Wikipedia. Though Chinese authorities ...

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Multilingual Search, UK - 24 minutes ago
Wikipedia, a Web-based free content encyclopedia, has recently been unblocked again China according to the Information World Review. ...

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Multilingual Search, UK - 26 minutes ago
I earlier posted that China blocked and unblocked Wikipedia and that it was now available in most of China. That information was ...

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Last Week in China - Baidu, Blogger and a China Summer Ends Some of the more noteworthy news tidbits that happened in China last week. Baidu wins lawsuit over MP3’s A bit more than a week ago Chinese search engine Baidu won a MP3 copyright infringement case lawsuit, brought to court by 7 of the world’s largest music [...]

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