List of websites blocked in mainland China
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This is a list of notable websites blocked in mainland China. This page does not apply to Hong Kong and Macau as they have a policy of one country, two systems.
Table of high-ranking websites blocked in mainland China
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| Website | Domain | URL | Category | Primary language | Duration of blockage | Current status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| google.com | www.google.com drive.google.com chat.google.com scholar.google.com | Search | Multilingual | 2010–present[1][2] | Blocked[3][2] | |
| Poe | poe.com | www.poe.com | Artificial Intelligence | Multilingual | Unknown | Blocked |
| YouTube | youtube.com | www.youtube.com | Video | Multilingual | 2007 - 2008, 2009–present[4][3][5] | Blocked |
| Vimeo | vimeo.com | www.vimeo.com | video Sharing | Multilingual | ||
| facebook.com | www.facebook.com | Social | Multilingual | July (or earlier) 2009–present[6][7] | Blocked[8] | |
| Yahoo | yahoo.com | yahoo.com | Search | Multilingual | 28 February 2021 – present | Unblocked (Service Not Available)[9] |
| Yahoo Japan | yahoo.co.jp | yahoo.co.jp | Search | Japanese | June 15 - 17, 2012 and September 2017 -present[10] | Partial blocked (Service Not Available) |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia.org | wikipedia.org | Encyclopedia | Multilingual | 23 April 2019 – present[11][12][5] | Blocked |
| Marxists Internet Archive | marxists.org | marxists.org | Encyclopedia | Multilingual | About 2005–no later than 2007[13] | Unblocked |
| reddit.com | www.reddit.com | Social | Multilingual | 2018–present[14] | Blocked | |
| xing.com | www.xing.com | Social | Multilingual | 2011–present | Accessing the website via HTTPS | |
| Fandom | fandom.com | community.fandom.com | Encyclopedia | Multilingual | 2022–present | Partially blocked, sometimes can be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible |
| Netflix | netflix.com | www.netflix.com | Entertainment | Multilingual | 2012–present | Unblocked (Service Not Available)[15] |
| Zoom | zoom.us | zoom.us | Videotelephony | English | 9 September to November 2019[16] | Unblocked |
| Blogspot | blogspot.com | blogspot.com | Blog | English | May 2009–present[17][18][19] | Blocked |
| Bing | bing.com | bing.com | Search | Multilingual | 23 to 24 January 2019[20] | Unblocked (Service Not Available, redirects to Chinese version - cn.bing.com)[21] |
| Instagram.com | www.Instagram.com | Image Sharing | Multilingual | September 2014–present[22] | Blocked | |
| whatsapp.com | whatsapp.com | Messaging | Multilingual | September 2017–present[23] | Blocked | |
| Twitch | twitch.tv | twitch.tv | Streaming | English | 17 September 2018–present | Blocked[24] |
| Roblox | roblox.com | roblox.com | Gaming | Multilingual | December 2021 – present | Blocked
(Chinese version currently deprecated) |
| Equestria Daily | equestriadaily.com | www.equestriadaily.com | Online Community | English | April 2022 – August 2023 and August 2023 – present | Partially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible |
| Steam Store | store.steampowered.com | store.steampowered.com | Entertainment | Multilingual | 25 December 2021[25][26]–present | Partially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible |
| Steam Community | steamcommunity.com | steamcommunity.com | Social | Multilingual | 15 December 2017[27][28]–present | Blocked |
| Spotify | spotify.com | spotify.com | Music streaming | Multilingual | 7 October 2008–present | Unblocked (Service Not Available)[29] |
| Messenger | messenger.com | messenger.com | Messaging | Multilingual | August 2011–present[6][7] | Blocked |
| X | x.com | x.com | Social | English | June 2009–present[17][30][7] | Blocked |
| linkedin.com | linkedin.com | Social | Multilingual | October 2021–present[31][11][12] | Blocked (Separate Chinese version exists) | |
| Skype | skype.com | skype.com | Social | Multilingual | November 2017–unknown[32] | Unblocked |
| Tumblr | tumblr.com | tumblr.com | Social | English | 25 May 2016–present[33] | Blocked |
| pinterest.com | pinterest.com | Image sharing | Multilingual | March 2017–present[34] | Blocked | |
| SoundCloud | SoundCloud.com | SoundCloud.com | Music streaming | Multilingual | September 2013–present[35] | Blocked |
| Signal Private Messenger | signal.org | signal.org | Instant messaging | Multilingual | March 16, 2021 – present[36] | Blocked |
| Dropbox | dropbox.com | dropbox.com | File sharing | Multilingual | May 2010 – February 2014; June 2014 – present[37] | Blocked |
| Pornhub | pornhub.com | www.pornhub.com | Pornography | English | 2012, May to 2016, April, to present | Blocked[38] |
| XVideos | xvideos.com | xvideos.com | Pornography videos | English | Unknown – present | Blocked |
| Medium | medium.com | medium.com | News | English | 2016, 15 April to present[39] | Blocked |
| Dailymotion | dailymotion.com | dailymotion.com | Sharing | English | 2007, 11 April to present[40] | Blocked |
| BBC | bbc.co.uk (or bbc.com) | bbc.co.uk (or bbc.com) | News and broadcasting | English | 2014, 15 October to present[41] | Blocked |
| The New York Times | nytimes.com | nytimes.com | Publication | English | 2012 to present | Blocked[42] |
| Vimeo | vimeo.com | www.vimeo.com | Sharing | English | 2009, October[43] to present[44] | Blocked |
| The Guardian | theguardian.com | theguardian.com | News | English | June 2019 to present[45] | Blocked |
| SlideShare | slideshare.net | slideshare.net | English | June 2012 to present | Blocked[46] | |
| Discord | discord.com | discord.com | Messaging | Multilingual | 2018, 13 July to present[47] | Blocked |
| DeviantArt | deviantart.com | www.deviantart.com | Art display | English | 2008, 15 December to present[48] | Blocked |
| The Washington Post | washingtonpost.com | washingtonpost.com | News | English | June 2019 to present[45] | Blocked |
| Nico Video | nicovideo.jp | nicovideo.jp | Sharing | Japanese | Unknown to present[49] | Blocked |
| Archive.org (Internet Archive) | archive.org | www.archive.org | Web archiving | English | 2011, April (or earlier) to Present[50] | Blocked[51][52] |
| Bloomberg | bloomberg.com | bloomberg.com | Publication | English | 2012, July to present[53] | Blocked |
| Flickr | flickr.com | flickr.com | Sharing | English | 2007, 7 June to present[54][55] | Blocked |
| Wretch | wretch.cc | www.wretch.cc | Blog | Chinese | 2007, August to 2012[56] | Blocked (discontinued) |
| HuffPost | huffpost.com | huffpost.com | News | English | June 2019 to present[45] | Blocked |
| The Wall Street Journal | wsj.com | wsj.com | News | English | No later than 22 September 2015 to present[57][58] | Blocked |
| DuckDuckGo | duckduckgo.com | duckduckgo.com | Search | English | 2014, September to present[59] | Blocked |
| Scratch | scratch.mit.edu | scratch.mit.edu | Programming, Sharing | Multilingual | 2020, 14 August to present | Partially Blocked (Not accessible)[60][source?][61] |
| Reuters | reuters.com | reuters.com | News | English | 2015, 20 March, to present[62] | Blocked |
| NBC News | nbcnews.com | www.nbcnews.com | News | English | June 2019 to present[45] | Blocked |
| TIME | time.com | time.com | News | English | 2016. 9 April to present[63] | Blocked |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) | cbc.ca | www.cbc.ca | News and broadcasting | English | 2014 to present[64] | Blocked |
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) | www.abc.net.au | www.abc.net.au | News and broadcasting | English | 2018, 22 August to present[65] | Blocked |
| Bandcamp | bandcamp.com | www.bandcamp.com | Music | English | 2021, February to present[66] | Blocked |
| Technorati | technorati.com | www.technorati.com | Search | English | 2008, July to Present[67] | Blocked |
| Archive of Our Own | archiveofourown.org | archiveofourown.org | Fanfiction | Multilingual | 2020, March, to present[68] | Blocked |
| Viber | viber.com | viber.com | Messaging | Multilingual | 2014, October to present[69] | Blocked |
| South China Morning Post | scmp.com | scmp.com | News | English | 2016 to present[70] | Blocked |
| Plurk | plurk.com | www.plurk.com | Social | Multilingual | 2009, April to Present[71] | Blocked |
| The Economist | economist.com | economist.com | News | English | April 2016 – present[72][73] | Blocked |
| ABC | abc.es | www.abc.es | News | Spanish | 29 November 2021 – present[74] | Blocked |
| Voice of America | voanews.com | www.voanews.com | News | English | Unknown – present[75] | Blocked |
| Radio Free Asia | rfa.org | rfa.org | News, broadcasting | Multilingual | Unknown – present[76][77] | Blocked |
| NBC | nbc.com | nbc.com | Broadcasting | English | June 2019 – present[45] | Blocked |
| PBworks | pbworks.com | pbworks.com | Sharing | English | January 2011 – present[78] | Blocked |
| The Epoch Times | theepochtimes.com | www.theepochtimes.com | News | English | 2003–present[79] | Blocked |
| The Epoch Times (Chinese edition) | epochtimes.com | www.epochtimes.com | News | Chinese | 1999–present[79] | Blocked |
| HBO | hbo.com | www.hbo.com | Entertainment | English | June 2018 – present[80] | Blocked |
| WION | wionews.com | www.wionews.com | News | English | July 2020 – present[81] | Blocked[82] |
| Hong Kong Free Press | hongkongfp.com | hongkongfp.com | News | English | November 2015 – present[83] | Blocked |
| Apple Daily | appledaily.com | appledaily.com | News | English | Unknown – 2021 and unknown – present | Blocked[84] |
| TikTok | tiktok.com | www.tiktok.com | Social | Multilingual | June 2020 – present | Blocked[85] |
| ChatGPT | openai.com | chatgpt.com
chat.openai.com |
Artificial Intelligence | Multilingual | 2023–present | Blocked[86] |
| Rockstar Games | rockstargames.com | www.rockstargames.com | Gaming | Multilingual | Unknown–present | Blocked |
| GitHub | github.com | www.github.com | Web tools | Multilingual | June 2020 – present | Partially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible |
| Hugging Face | huggingface.co | huggingface.co | Artificial Intelligence | Multilingual | 2023–present | Blocked[87] |
| Flipkart | flipkart.com | www.flipkart.com | Online Shopping | Multilingual | Unknown–present | Blocked |
| Zomato | zomato.com | www.zomato.com | Food Service | English | Unknown–present | Blocked |
| Clubhouse | clubhouse.com | www.clubhouse.com | Social | English | February 2021 – present | Blocked[88] |
| Swiggy | swiggy.com | www.swiggy.com | Food Service | English | Unknown–present | Blocked |
| Truth Social | truthsocial.com | www.truthsocial.com | Social Media | English | February 2022 – present | Blocked[89][90] |
| National Weather Service | weather.gov | www.weather.gov | Weather | English | Unknown | Unblocked |
| Kanzhongguo
(English) |
visiontimes.com | www.visiontimes.com | Newspaper | English | Unknown-present | Blocked[91] |
| Kanzhongguo
(Chinese) |
secretchina.com | www.secretchina.com
pdf.secretchina.com |
Newspaper | Chinese | Unknown-present | Blocked[92] |
| Microsoft Copilot | Copilot.microsoft.com | Copilot.microsoft.com | Artificial Intelligence | Multilingual | October 2024 – present | Blocked[93] |
| Telegram | telegram.org | telegram.org | Messaging | Multilingual | July 2015 – present | Blocked |
| Voice of America
(Chinese) |
voachinese.com | www.voachinese.com | Newspaper | Chinese | Unknown-present | Blocked |
| Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher
(by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster) |
lilaoshibushinilaoshi.com | lilaoshibushinilaoshi.com | Blog | Chinese | June About 2023-present | Blocked |
| Grammarly | grammarly.com | http://grammarly.com/ | Grammar and Spelling Checker | English | Unknown | Partially blocked (sometimes can be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible) due to legal issues and inconsistencies with reCAPTCHA, which Grammarly uses to reset password. ReCAPTCHA has difficulty functioning when logged out of Google, and Google is blocked in China. |
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website list (in ABC order) (incomplete)
- www.abc.net.au[94]
- www.archive.org[95]
- www.bbc.com[96]
- www.bloomberg.com[97]
- www.cbc.ca[98]
- ChatGPT[99]
- www.cia.gov
- www.dailymotion.com[100]
- www.deviantart.com[101]
- www.discord.com[102]
- www.economist.com[103]
- www.epochtimes.com[104]
- www.facebook.com[6][7] and www.messenger.com[3]
- www.flickr.com[105][106]
- www.foxnews.com
- Gboard, Gmail and Google Maps
- www.hbo.com[107]
- www.huffpost.com[45]
- www.independent.co.uk
- www.instagram.com[108]
- www.lemonde.fr [109]
- www.linkedin.com
- www.nbc.com[45]
- www.nbcnews.com
- www.netflix.com
- New Tang Dynasty Television
- Sound of Hope (希望之声)
- www.nytimes.com[110]
- www.pornhub.com
- www.pinterest.com[111]
- www.quora.com
- www.reddit.com
- www.reuters.com[112]
- www.rfa.org
- www.scmp.com[113]
- www.soundcloud.com[114]
- www.spotify.com
- www.telegram.org[115]
- www.theguardian.com[45]
- www.tiktok.com
- www.time.com[116]
- www.tumblr.com[117]
- www.twitch.tv[118]
- www.twitter.com[30]
- www.viber.com[119]
- www.vimeo.com
- www.voa.gov
- www.washingtonpost.com
- www.whatsapp.com
- www.wikileaks.org
- www.wikimedia.org and www.wikipedia.org
- www.wsj.com
- www.xvideos.com
- www.youtube.com
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