The Great Firewall of China grabs the headlines again – and as always, not for the best of reasons.
New reports have confirmed that thousands of websites suddenly vanished from China’s cyberspace earlier this week after the government ramped up its online censorship program by banning EdgeCast, one of the largest Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) across the World Wide Web.
Incidentally, the move has come at a time when the country, home to a quarter of the world’s internet users, is hosting a major internet industry conference in the Wuzhen city.
EdgeCast, currently owned by Verizon Communication, has already acknowledged the blockage via their official blog: “This week we’ve seen the filtering escalate with an increasing number of popular web properties impacted and even one of our many domains being partially blocked… with no rhyme or reason as to why.”
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