China hijacks search engines over Dalai Lama award

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Source: CBC

China may be using the internet to get back at the U.S. for awarding the Dalai Lama with a Congressional Gold Medal, analysts say. Web surfers in China or those using Chinese internet service providers have reported they're being redirected from Google and Yahoo to the Chinese-owned Baidu search engine, according to the Search Engine Roundtable, a website that monitors internet search trends.

Google's YouTube video-sharing portal and Yahoo's Flickr photo site were also blocked, according to other technology analysis sites, including Techcrunch.

While China routinely censors internet content and blocks web pages, the country is engaging in a form of economic sanctions by hijacking U.S. search engine traffic, according to the Roundtable."


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