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Wikipedia, the free online encylopedia is now accessible in China once again. However, the catch is that it is available in all the languages except Chinese. So, all those users (living in China) of wikipedia can now easily go through various articles in any language but if they want to look for chinese content then they will be presented with a blank screen.

We all know that China is very picky about what is shown on the internet and thus has blocked various websites before including Google as well. The reason due to which Wikipedia was blocked is that the Government of China thinks that there are various articles on Wikipedia which are politically sensitive.

I am not sure that why exactly countries apply these kind of restrictions because these restrictions can be easily over-riden by the use of various public proxy sites like http://anonymouse.org. Also, blocking of the internet content will always provoke the users to actually use it using all these kind of methods and it will do nothing but it will highlight these kind of content. Also, it will mean that Government is considering its citizens as immature and wants to put a check on them.

Anyway, the alternative of Wikipedia Chinese is Baidu Baike and it also provides the content but unlike wikipedia Baidu Baike’s content is monitored and is owned by Baidu only.

[Via : Search Engine Journal]
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