Gmail email service is blocked in China

There are reports that Gmail email service is blocked in China now, which is easily accessible usually.

China is facing troubles using the Gmail directly through Google’s site, it has become impossible for them to use Gmail however citizen of China are able to use third-party apps like Microsoft Outlook, to make use of Gmail.

Nevertheless, Google’s own data shows that indeed the traffic steeped down enormously on Friday.

The US firm said there were no known issues with its provision of Gmail.

“There’s nothing technically wrong on our end,” the spokesman for Google Asia Pacific, Taj Meadows told a news agency.

A digital rights campaign group was the first to announce the issue. Accprding to them the internet protocol addresses that are used to access Gmail in China have become inaccessible.

“Those protocols are used in the default email app on iPhone, Microsoft Outlook on PC and many more email clients,” it informed.

“Chinese users now have no way of accessing Gmail behind the GFW [great firewall].”

Google’s data reveals there is still, but, a low level of Gmail usage in China.

There may be a chance that Chinese government is for this restriction as Chinese government hasn’t confirmed being behind this inaccessible Gmail service nor has denied to it.

“The past two years have seen a consistent tightening of all kinds of censorship on the internet and media,” founder of Beijing-based media tracker Danwei, Jeremy Goldkorn informed.

“There is an increasingly aggressive attitude towards what they [Beijing] call ‘internet sovereignty’ and they are confident about talking about internet censorship in positive terms.”