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March 22, 2011 No Comments

Intermittent outages and performance problems that make it appear Gmail is failing in China are actually caused by the government’s deliberate interference, says Google, which maintains its systems are functioning just fine. The uprisings in the Middle East have apparently caused Chinese officials to be even more nervous than usual about allowing citizens to access some of the most popular online channels of communication.