Yahoo Mail
In China, the yahoo news page and homepage is not blocked. Yay! This grants the population access to a Western news source (if that is what you elect to call Yahoo). However, people are denied access to the Yahoo mail server. So my family has to attempt to access their yahoo email account via proxy servers, which we have already established are fairly unreliable.
Why is the news site not blocked, but the emails are? My guess is that the Chinese government probably doesn't take the Yahoo news as very serious, so it doesn't concern itself with a a mass site block. Instead it likely censors the few stories that Yahoo produces that China deems as unfit for the population to read. However, perhaps Yahoo has proven to be a hub for protest planned activity or its users are some that China want to keep from accessing their emails, so the email aspect of Yahoo is blocked.
I'm not really sure, sometimes I wonder if sites are not 'blocked' but merely experience a lot of glitches in China because of some area's poor internet connections? This query might make it sound like I am bending my ear to Chinese propaganda, but I'm not. It just seems likely a likely alternative reason.
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