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Starting late Wednesday users in Beijing and Shanghai were unable to access Google's search engine, the Chinese-language version of the Web site and its Gmail e-mail service, according to a report from the BBC. The report said Google was investigating the service disruption, but no other information about the cause of the outage was available.
Earlier in the day a spokesman for China's foreign ministry accused Google of spreading pornography. "We have found that the English version of Google.com has spread lots of pornographic, lewd and vulgar content, which is in serious violation of Chinese laws and regulations," the spokesman, Qin Gang, was quoted as saying in a report from the Associated Press.
Qin was speaking at a regular briefing and would not say whether the government was blocking the Google Web site, according to the AP report. He said Chinese authorities had summoned Google representatives in China and "urged them to remove the [pornographic] content immediately." He also expressed hope the service problem could be "resolved immediately."
One week ago China's Internet watchdog organization, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, accused the Chinese-language version of Google of "disseminating pornographic and vulgar information."
The attacks on Google are the latest developments in an escalating dispute between China and Western countries over what China sees as violations of its anti-pornography laws and the West sees as censorship.
Earlier this month China said it would mandate that all PCs sold in that country after July 1 be equipped with Web-filtering software called Green Dam. But critics both inside China and outside the country have said the government could use the software to censor politically sensitive material.
In joint letters sent today to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Commerce, U.S. Trade representative Ron Kirk and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said the Green Dam software requirement might violate China's commitments under World Trade Organization rules.
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