Google is blocked in China

Since yesterday, from 21:00 Beijing time, messages from all over China began to come in, that the Google site, search results, the Gmail mail service and other services of the Internet giant stopped opening.

At the moment, all Google services are blocked for residents of the People's Republic of China, except Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. It is worth noting that the Chinese version of the search engine google.com.cn or g.cn is working properly, although it is still not possible to open links located on the google.com/ domain, for example: enter the account ("登录").
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At the same time, journalist Mark Zavadsky reports that in Beijing Google, as well as the Google Reader service, has so far opened without problems. However, several worried messages have already appeared on the Internet:

At first, LJ was unavailable in China (by the way, I did not learn to write here. I still can’t learn back) and Wikipedia. now both are open, but banned twitter (well, to hell with him, to be honest) and youtube (and this is a pity, but okay too), but when Google stopped opening today after 12 at night, I just came into a state of wild shock. In the same place all mail, all major contacts. Yes, half of China's mail is on Google, what will they do ??? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAa. I really hope that this is a temporary insanity.

- leo_dreamer

The Eastern Hemisphere forum is currently discussing and collecting information on the current blocking status:

And what about Google and Googlemail today?
Or just I cant?
I can't go all evening / although everything was still opening normally at half past five /, but it comes out from under the torus with a creak, although also through time.
Who is guilty? Again?
Or is it Google's shoals on the server?
- Sibery

I also do not google Google. In Pekin.
- alexeisf

A few days earlier, Webplanet reported that Chinese authorities had accused Google search engine of poorly filtering obscene content. Then, perhaps this blocking is temporary, until the search filters are configured according to government regulations.

Olga Motylyova (Shanghai) in her facebook reports that Google is working fine. Let me remind you that in China there are only two Internet service providers: China Netcom (中国 网通) and China Telecom (中国 电信). Quite often, blocking websites in China is carried out gradually, from the beginning with one provider, then with another. As the sad experience of Magazeta, Wikipedia, Livejournal showed, all these sites were once disconnected from region to region, which brought some misinformation about the real state of affairs.

Update 1

According to the latest data in Shanghai, only private users of China Telecom (中国 电信) lost access to Google services. China NetCom users have no problems yet. According to unconfirmed data, corporate clients of providers also have access. Perhaps this is because with the growing popularity of Google, many companies are translating their email to Gmail technology.

Update 2

On blocking, Google began to write foreign electronic publications:

• China Daily
• PCWorld
• Guardian.co.uk

Nevertheless, comments from representatives of the company in China. So the official representative of Google in China, Cui Jin, confirmed that access to the site was disabled yesterday after 9 pm.

The Guardian also quotes Li Kaifu, the head of Chinese Google:

“We’ve received your feedback, we’re just investigating, thanks for your feedback from Google overseas, thanks for your support.”

Official comments from the head company Google has not yet followed.

I continue to monitor the situation and update this news at this address: here .