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"China has blocked access to Wall Street Journal's local language website, putting the US publication in the same position as Bloomberg and New York Times which are also censored in the country.\r\n\r\nUpdate: Beijing Cream reports that the site is now unblocked, as of August 7.\r\n\r\nA check for the Chinese version of WSJ -- cn.wsj.com -- on monitoring site GreatFire.org\u00A0shows that the URL is blocked as of this weekend, although access may have first been restricted within the last month. The English-language version of the site remains accessible, suggesting the aim is to disrupt WSJ's reach in China rather than shut it off entirely.\r\n\r\nGreatFire tests the availability of selected URLs once per month\u00A0and, though it recorded &amp;quot;contradictory&amp;quot; results twice this year, this marks the first instance that WSJ has been unavailable in China.\r\n\r\nGreatFire previously broke news of China's widespread blockage of Google services during the\u00A018th Communist Party Congress last year, and it regularly reports new blocks on websites and services.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBloomberg was blocked in China in June 2012 while the NYT went dark in October, months after having its Sina Weibo account deleted, after both news companies published investigate reports into high-ranking politicians: Xi Jinping and (ex-President Prime Minister)\u00A0Wen Jiabao respectively.\r\n\r\nIn comparison, it is not entirely clear what WSJ has done to elicit a block, or whether it will be permanent. Access to both the\u00A0NYT China\u00A0and main\u00A0Bloomberg\u00A0websites remain blocked in China to this day.\r\n\r\nIt has been an eventful past year for WSJ in China. Like the New York Times, which suffered a four-month long campaign of hacks from what were believed to be Chinese hackers, the Journal came under attack from China's cyber army.\r\n\r\nOwner Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter in February to lament the fact that the attacks were continuing\u00A0days after WSJ bolstered its network security after its computer systems \u201Chad been infiltrated by Chinese hackers for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper\u2019s China coverage\u201D.\r\n\r\nChina is notorious for blocking a range of Western Web services, including Facebook and Twitter. Google relocated its search service\u00A0to Hong Kong\u00A0in 2010\u00A0following allegations that the Chinese government hacked into email accounts belonging to activists.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHeadline image via\u00A0AFP WASHINGTON/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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