【原文标题】China Blocks Access to The Times's Web Site
【中文标题】中国屏蔽《纽约时报》网站
【登载媒体】纽约时报
【来源地址】http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/world/asia/20china.html?_r=1&ref=media
【译者】荡漾
【声明】本翻译供Anti-CNN使用,转载请注明译者及出处,谢谢!
【译文】
(发自香港报道)中国当局已开始在大陆地区对《纽约时报》网站实行屏蔽。尽管先前曾经取消过一些互联网限制但最近中国已经开始对其他媒体的网站采取手段实行屏蔽。
周五早上当北京、上海和广州等城市的互联网用户访问《纽约时报》网站nytimes.com时网页显示该网站当前不可用。甚至有些用户早在周四晚上8点就被禁止访问,周六早上仍处于屏蔽状态。
不过本周初被屏蔽的BBC中文网、美国之音和《亚洲周刊》截至周五已被解禁,而周初遭屏蔽的香港《明报》周五仍处于遭禁状态。
就屏蔽《纽约时报》一事中国官方并未作何解释。来自外交部的一位匿名发言人表示“关于你提出的特殊问题,我们并不了解详情”“网站维护并不属于外交部的职责范围”。
北京国际新闻中心人员Tang Rui表示他也不了解具体情况,拒绝透露详情“可能是技术问题”。
香港地区周五并不受访问限制,于1997年回归中国的前英殖民地香港仍然享受包括互联网在内的言论自由。日本和美国的互联网用户周五访问《纽约时报》网站也不存在任何问题。
《纽约时报》发言人Catherine J.Mathis认为并不存在技术问题。
香港大学一位专门研究中国互联网限制的研究员Rebecca MacKinnon表示尚未得知屏蔽理由“所有人都是在猜测”。
北京奥运会前几个月、奥运期间及奥运刚结束时中国政府暂时放开了对一些网站的屏蔽并放宽了外国记者在中国境内旅行的要求。从那以后中国并未重拾旅行方面的限制。
本文的印刷版登载在2008年12月20日《纽约时报》的第九版
【原文】
(by Keith Bradsher)
HONG KONG — Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had recently imposed on the Web sites of other media outlets.
When computer users in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou tried to connect on Friday morning to nytimes.com, they received a message that the site was not available; some users were cut off on Thursday as early as 8 p.m. The blocking was still in effect on Saturday morning.
But the Chinese-language Web sites of BBC, Voice of America and Asiaweek, all of which had been blocked earlier this week, were accessible by Friday. The Web site of Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper, was blocked earlier this week and still restricted on Friday.
Chinese officials had few explanations for the restriction on The Times’s site. “Concerning your particular question, we’re not really familiar with the details,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, who declined to give his name. “Web site maintenance is not within the job purview of the Foreign Ministry.”
Tang Rui, an official with the government’s International Press Center in Beijing, said he also had no specific information. “It might be a technical problem,” he said, declining to elaborate.
Access to the Web site was not restricted on Friday in Hong Kong, which Britain returned to Chinese rule in 1997 but which still allows freedom of speech, including on the Internet. Internet users in Japan and the United States were also not experiencing difficulties on Friday in viewing the site.
A spokeswoman for The Times, Catherine J. Mathis, said there did not appear to be a technical issue.
Rebecca MacKinnon, a researcher at Hong Kong University who specializes in China’s Internet controls, said the reasons for the restrictions were mysterious. “All anybody can offer is speculation,” she said.
In the months leading up to the Olympics in Beijing, during the Games and immediately after, the Chinese government temporarily unblocked access to some Web sites and eased curbs on the ability of foreign correspondents to travel within China. It has not tightened the travel restrictions since then.
A version of this article appeared in print on December 20, 2008, on page A9 of the New York edition.
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