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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by zeta0134 on Monday May 29, 2017 @07:22PM (#14442046)
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.

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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by matt4711 on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:34PM (#14442320)
I think china blocks zh.wikipedia.org but all other languages are not blocked.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by kalleboo on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @12:35AM (#14443020)
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...)
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by Bakary on Monday May 29, 2017 @09:39PM (#14442531)
I just tested a few pages and it looks like you are right.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by beefsack on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:13PM (#14442223)
Nitpick: Google opted to pull out of mainland China instead of self-censoring. They moved Chinese operations to Hong Kong, but operate uncensored there.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by bumblebeard on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @12:10AM (#14442962)
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...

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