China blocks access to Bloomberg and Businessweek sites
Posted in: Censorship at 30/06/2012 14:15
Web users in mainland China are unable to access Bloomberg's websites, after they were blocked by local authorities.
The news agency thinks the move is a response to an article published about the fortunes of Vice President Xi Jinping's extended family.
China has repeatedly blocked sensitive stories. Two days ago, the New York Times' social media accounts were suspended for several hours.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18648050
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China appears to have blocked access to the Bloomberg website after it detailed the multimillion-dollar assets of relatives of the man expected to become president.
It is widely assumed that Xi Jinping will become the general secretary of the Communist party later this year and president of China next spring. The Bloomberg report said it did not trace any assets to Xi, his wife or their daughter, but that members of his extended family owned luxury properties in Hong Kong and multimillion-dollar investments in companies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/29/china-bloomberg-xi-jinping
China censors block Xi web searches
China's online censors went into overdrive on Friday, blocking internet searches and references to Xi Jinping, the man anointed as the country's president-in-waiting, after US news service Bloomberg published a forensic report on the fortune amassed by his relatives.
Access to Bloomberg's news feed was also blocked following the story's publication.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/103a9a4e-c1f5-11e1-8e7c-00144feabdc0.html
