Greatfire.org: Google China Services Disrupted Ahead Of Tiananmen Anniversary

(RTTNews) - Censorship watchdog Greatfire.org said the Great Firewall of China or GFW began severely disrupting Google search in China, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident.

Greatfire.org, which monitors online censorship In China, said Google started to encrypt search by default in China in March and currently nearly all users will be redirected to the encrypted version automatically.

But prior to the anniversary of Tiananmen incident, GFW began to severely disrupt Google search by disrupting TCP connections to Google IPs.

The block is indiscriminate as all Google services in all countries, encrypted or not, are now blocked in China. This blockage includes Google search, images, translate, Gmail and almost all other products.

In addition, the block covers Google Hong Kong, Google.com and all other country specific versions like Google France.

GOOG closed down 1.1 percent on Monday at $553.93. GOOGL settled down 1.3 percent at $564.34.