Saturday, December 13, 2014

Top Websites Blocked by Chinese Government

Among the top 10 websites (according to traffic volume recorded by Alexa), 5 are blocked by the Chinese government. Among the top 1000 sites, 169 are blocked, a number raised from 62 (an increase of 172.58%) of last year 2013.

    Top websites:
  1. Google.com (100% in the last 90 days)
  2. Facebook.com (100% in the last 90 days)
  3. Youtube.com (100% in the last 90 days)
  4. Yahoo.com (28% in last 90 days)
  5. Bidu.com
  6. Amazon.com
  7. Wikipedia.com
  8. Taobao.com
  9. Twitter.com (100% in the last 90 days)
  10. QQ.com

Other blocked sites include: blogspot.com, netflix.com, dropbox.com, nytimes.com, vimeo.com, flickr.com, slideshare.net, macys.com, archive.org, wsj.com, bloomberg.com, android.com, pastebin.com, instagram.com, wordpress.com, scribd.com, speedtest.net, tumblr.com, reddit.com, among others.

A complete list of websites blocked by the Chinese government can be found at GreatFire.Org.

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