China blocks access to WikiLeaks, "does not wish any disturbance in China-U.S. relations"
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[release]China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations.
"China takes note of the government reports. We hope the U.S. side will handle the relevant issues," Hong Lei, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said at a Beijing news conference on Tuesday. "As for the content of the documents, we will not comment on that."
Access to the WikiLeak's Cablegate page, as well as certain Chinese language news articles covering the topic, have been blocked in the country since Monday. Other articles from the Chinese press that are accessible on the web appear to only concern the U.S. response.
The ban on WikiLeaks comes as one of the major revelations provided by the the release was a document linking China's Politburo to the December 2009 hack of Google's computer systems. An unidentified Chinese contact told the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that China's Politburo had "directed the intrusion into Google's computer systems," the New York Times reported Sunday, citing one of the cables.
Although the cable does not provide conclusive proof linking China to the Google attack, it reinforces the concern that the Chinese government has sponsored organized hacking attempts against U.S. computers.
"The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government," the Times reported. "They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said."
Last year's coordinated attack, known as Aurora, targeted Google and more than 30 other companies. In the case of Google, the company reported that some of its intellectual property had been stolen by the attack. Both Google and the State Department have implied they believe China was behind the hacking. But in past statements, China has denied any involvement.
China has blocked websites in the past when their content concerned politically sensitive material. Popular websites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are currently inaccessible within the country.
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Now this is an interesting, but expected, development.
It's not like you can't find this on a shitton of torrent sites.
[quote=china]lalalalala i can't hear you[/quote]
[QUOTE=Maurice;26404457]It's not like you can't find this on a shitton of torrent sites.[/QUOTE]
Your avatar has motion-blur now. I like it.
This is interesting, to say the least.
When I read the title I thought, "They hadn't already?"
Half China with a internet connection was bypassing the great firewall of China anyway, I doubt they will even notice it.
This seems insignificant when you compare it to the thousands of websites that are already blocked in chine. I'm just surprised it took this long.
Bullshit.
China is only blocking it because they are a authoritative regime that fears their corruption will be further exposed.
[QUOTE=starpluck;26404621]Bullshit.
China is only blocking it because they are a authoritative regime that fears their corruption will be further exposed.[/QUOTE]
No chance that it'd be both? :v:
No.
It's just a false pretext for their censorship. And this pretext makes the censorship seem all kind and approved by the international community when in reality it's not why it was censored. (Docs revealing China's complicity in Google hacking e.g)
I bet the higher ups in the country will have access to the files anyway
I pictured China sticking its fingers in its ears and yelling, "Can't hear you!"
:foxnews: [B]COMMUNIST CHINESE BEUROCRATS BLOCK CITIZEN'S ACCESS TO WEBSITES; OBAMA TO FOLLOW SUIT[/b] :foxnews:
This makes it sound like we got China by the balls, but really they just want to continue peddling their mediocre products to us, because they know we will buy en-mass.
Such can be expected from cowardly politicians. That's right China, i'm calling your political leaders cowards. You gonna do anything 'bout it? I thought not, cowards.
Rather than retain or integrity, let's block access to wikileaks in a pathetic attempt to save face, making it only slightly more difficult to access the documents! Sounds like a plan!
[QUOTE=ironman17;26408318]Such can be expected from cowardly politicians. That's right China, i'm calling your political leaders cowards. You gonna do anything 'bout it? I thought not, cowards.[/QUOTE]
Most politicians are cowards. If america could, they would censor the shit out of internet too, but it's a bit harder for them.
didnt china hack our internets? or was that just some fox news bullshit
I honestly don't know how to feel
This is like a playground secret. China loves Ameeerica, China loves Ameeerica, nana nana naaaaa
[quote=China]Oh, good. I was looking for an excuse to block Wikileaks[/quote]
[QUOTE=Strongbad;26405258]:foxnews: [B]COMMUNIST CHINESE BEUROCRATS BLOCK CITIZEN'S ACCESS TO WEBSITES; OBAMA TO FOLLOW SUIT[/b] :foxnews:[/QUOTE]
There was actually an editorial on fox in which the author said that the person who leaked the stuff to wikileaks should be executed and that the US should hunt down and capture assange to be tried in military tribunal. Still ridiculous, but the opposite basically.
That's pretty mature of them. What'd you expect? "Some obscure elected person said we're evil, I hate america, waaaaaa"
China owns a massive amount of US debt, and rumors are that WikiLeak's next release will be about the US bank system and how corrupt it is. Could cause a lot of economic turmoil in China....
Well there you go. Now if the US blocks the site we are China.
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