[zeta0134]

Oh, huh! I missed that entirely, now I'm curious too. HTTPS should make that difficult, but China has been known to employ all sorts of weird shenanigans-- perhaps they're running a "trusted' MitM as part of the great firewall?

I know that certain companies (like Google and Microsoft) will actively censor themselves to continue to operate within China, but I figured Wikipedia would be against that practice on principal. Now I'm curious as to how it's done.

[matt4711]

I think china blocks zh.wikipedia.org but all other languages are not blocked.

[kalleboo]

When I visited China a bunch of years ago, zh.wikipedia was completely blocked, and on English wikipedia, only certain articles were deadholed (tiananmen square...)

[Bakary]

I just tested a few pages and it looks like you are right.

[beefsack]

Nitpick: Google opted to pull out of mainland China instead of self-censoring. They moved Chinese operations to Hong Kong, but operate uncensored there.

[bumblebeard]

Google was perfectly willing to self-censor in China until they were hacked by the Chinese government in 2010. That's when Google China moved to Hong Kong.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...