AP
China blocks access to New York Times Web
site
Saturday December 20, 10:40 am
ET
China blocks access to New York Times
Web site, paper says
Computer users who logged on in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou
received a message that the site was not available when they tried
to connect on Friday morning, the paper said. Some users were cut
of as early as Thursday evening, it said.
The Web site remained inaccessible from Beijing Saturday.
It was not clear if the move was meant to block specific content
on the newspaper's Web site or if it was a return to stricter
censorship of the Internet in general. Beijing loosened some media
and Internet controls during the 2008 Summer Olympics -- gestures
that were meant to show the international community that the games
had brought greater freedom to the Chinese people.
