Many domain names are blocked in mainland China under the country's Internet censorship policy, which prevents users from accessing certain websites from within the country.
A majority of apps and websites blocked are the result of the companies not willing to follow the Chinese government's internet regulations on data collection and privacy, user-safety, guidelines and the type of content being shared, posted or hosted.
This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites in the country. This page does not apply to Chinese territories that adhere to the policy of one country, two systems (Hong Kong and Macau).
Currently, SIM cards from outside China are subject to different blocking strategies when roaming in China,Some websites related to Falun Gong and certain news websites are blocked.
Table of high-ranking websites blocked in mainland China
+ Website URL Category Primary language Duration of blockage Current statusLiveJournalwww.livejournal.comRussian, EnglishMay 2007-unknown There were brief periods where it could be accessedUnblocked Google www.google.com www.google.com.hkdrive.google.comchat.google.comscholar.google.com Search Multilingual 2010–2014 (google.com.hk still available), 2014–present (completely) Blocked Poe www.poe.com Artificial Intelligence Multilingual 2023–present Blocked YouTube www.youtube.comyoutu.be Video Multilingual 2007 - 2008, 2009–present Blocked Yandex Video video.yandex.com Video Sharing Multilingual June 2016(or earlier)-Present Blocked Namuwiki namu.wiki Encyclopedia Multilingual December 2024 – present Blocked Quora quora.com Question and answer Multilingual 2018–present BlockedFacebook www.Facebook.com Social Multilingual July (or earlier) 2009–present BlockedYahoo yahoo.com Search Multilingual 28 February 2021 – present Unblocked (Service Not Available) Yahoo Hong Kong hk.yahoo.com Search Multilingual March 2011 – Present Blocked Yahoo Kimo tw.yahoo.com Search Multilingual May 2011 – Present Blocked Yahoo Japan yahoo.co.jp Search Japanese June 15–17, 2012 and September 2017 -present Partial blocked (word search, photo search blocked, but other Services such as Yahoo News and Yahoo Mail remain accessible). Wikipedia wikipedia.org Encyclopedia Multilingual 23 April 2019 – present Blocked Marxists Internet Archive marxists.org Encyclopedia Multilingual About 2005–no later than 2007; September 5, 2026-present Blocked Reddit www.reddit.com Social Multilingual 2018–present Blocked XING www.xing.com Social Multilingual 2011–present Accessing the website via HTTPS Fandomcommunity.fandom.comEncyclopediaMultilingual2022–present Partially blocked, sometimes can be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible IMDBwww.imdb.comOnline and offlineEnglishUnknown Unblocked Netflix www.netflix.com Entertainment Multilingual 2012–present Unblocked (Service Not Available) Zoom zoom.us Videotelephony English 9 September to November 2019 Unblocked Blogspot blogspot.com Blog English May 2009–present Blocked Bing bing.com Search Multilingual 23 to 24 January 2019 Unblocked (Service Not Available, redirects to Chinese version - cn.bing.com)Ecosiaecosia.orgSearchMultilingual2023–presentredirects to Chinese version - cn.bing.comCrunchyrollcrunchyroll.comAnime streamingMultilingual2010s – presentBlocked Instagram www.Instagram.com Image SharingMultilingual September 2014–present BlockedWhatsAppWhatsApp.comMessagingMultilingualSeptember 2017–presentBlocked Twitch twitch.tv Streaming English 17 September 2018–present BlockedRobloxroblox.comGamingMultilingualDecember 2021 – presentBlocked (Chinese version currently deprecated)New·19841984bbs.orgNewsChineseOctober 2022 – presentBlockedEquestria Dailywww.equestriadaily.comOnline CommunityEnglishApril 2022 – August 2023 and August 2023 – presentPartially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessibleDerpibooruwww.derpibooru.orgOnline CommunityEnglish2023 – Present BlockedSteam Storestore.steampowered.comEntertainmentMultilingual25 December 2021–presentPartially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessibleSteam Communitysteamcommunity.comSocialMultilingual15 December 2017–presentBlockedSpotifywww.spotify.comopen.spotify.comMusic streamingMultilingual7 October 2008–presentUnblocked (Web version Service Not Available)Messengermessenger.comMessagingMultilingualAugust 2011–presentBlocked X x.comtwitter.comt.co Social English June 2009–presentBlockedLinkedInlinkedin.comSocialMultilingualOctober 2021–2023 Partially accessible; the main domain is generally accessible, while some pages are intermittently disrupted. LinkedIn discontinued its separate China-focused InCareer service on 9 August 2023.Skypeskype.comSocialMultilingualNovember 2017–5 May 2025 Blocked (Service stopped) Tumblr tumblr.com Social English 25 May 2016–present Blocked Pinterest pinterest.com Image sharing Multilingual March 2017–present BlockedSoundCloudSoundCloud.comMusic streamingMultilingualSeptember 2013–present BlockedSignal Private Messengersignal.orgInstant messagingMultilingualMarch 16, 2021 – presentBlockedDropboxdropbox.comFile sharingMultilingualMay 2010 – February 2014; June 2014 – present BlockedLineline.meInstant messagingSocial networkingMultilingualJuly 2014 – present Blocked Pornhub www.pornhub.com Pornography Multilingual 2012, May to 2016, April, to present BlockedXVideosxvideos.comPornography videosMultilingualUnknown – present Blocked Medium medium.com News English 2016, 15 April to present BlockedFC2fc2.comBlogging hostVideo hosting serviceMultilingualApril 30, 2013 – present Blocked Dailymotion dailymotion.com Sharing English 2007, 11 April to present Blocked BBC bbc.co.uk bbc.com News and broadcasting English 2014, 15 October to present Blocked The New York Times nytimes.com Publication English 2012 to present Blocked Vimeo www.vimeo.com Video Sharing Multilingual 2009, October, Shanghaiist to present BlockedPixivpixiv.netOnline communityMultilingualSeptember 2017 – present Blocked The Guardian theguardian.com News English June 2019 to present Blocked SlideShare slideshare.net Slide hosting service English June 2012 to present BlockedHidivewww.hidive.comAnime streaming English2017 – presentPartially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible Discord discord.com Messaging Multilingual 2018, 13 July to present Blocked DeviantArt www.deviantart.com Art display English 2008, 15 December to present Blocked The Washington Post washingtonpost.com News English June 2019 to present Blocked Nico Video nicovideo.jp Sharing Japanese Unknown to present Blocked Archive.org (Internet Archive) www.archive.org Web archiving English 2011, April (or earlier) to Present Blocked Bloomberg bloomberg.com Publication English 2012, July to present Blocked Flickr flickr.com Sharing English 2007, 7 June to present Blocked Wretch www.wretch.cc Blog Chinese 2007, August to 2012China blocks public access to Taiwan’s blog portal sites , China Post, 5 January 2008. Blocked (discontinued) HuffPost huffpost.com News English June 2019 to present Blocked Six Apart sixapart.comsixapart.jp News EnglishJapanese Unknown to present Blocked The Wall Street Journal wsj.com News English No later than 22 September 2015 to present Blocked DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Search English 2014, September to present BlockedScratch scratch.mit.edu Programming, SharingMultilingual 2020, 14 August to present Partially Blocked (Not accessible) Reuters reuters.com News English 2015, 20 March, to present Blocked NBC News nbcnews.com News English June 2019 to present Blocked TIMEtime.comNewsEnglish 2016. 9 April to present Blocked Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) www.cbc.ca News and broadcasting English 2014 to present Blocked Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) www.abc.net.au News and broadcasting English 2018, 22 August to present Blocked Bandcamp www.bandcamp.com Music English 2021, February to present Blocked Technorati www.technorati.com Search English 2008, July to Present BlockedArchive of Our Ownarchiveofourown.orgFanfictionMultilingual2020, March, to present Blocked Viber viber.com Messaging Multilingual 2014, October to present Blocked South China Morning Post scmp.com News English 2016 to present Blocked Plurk www.plurk.com Social Multilingual 2009, April to Present Blocked The Economisteconomist.comNewsEnglishApril 2016 – present Blocked ABC www.abc.es News Spanish 29 November 2021 – present Blocked Voice of America www.voanews.com News English Unknown – present Blocked Radio Free Asia rfa.org News, broadcasting Multilingual Unknown – present Blocked NBC nbc.com Broadcasting English June 2019 – present Unblocked PBworks pbworks.com Sharing English January 2011 – present"The dilemma presented by China’s content filtering of my current handouts website" , retrieved 13 July 2010. Blocked The Epoch Times www.theepochtimes.com News English 2003–present Blocked The Epoch Times (Chinese edition) www.epochtimes.com News Chinese 1999–present Blocked HBO www.hbo.com Entertainment English June 2018 – present Blocked WION www.wionews.com News English July 2020 – present Blocked Hong Kong Free Press hongkongfp.com News English November 2015 – present Blocked TikTok www.tiktok.com Social Multilingual June 2020 – present Blocked ChatGPT chatgpt.com chat.openai.comapi.openai.com Artificial Intelligence Multilingual 2023–present BlockedRockstar Gameswww.rockstargames.comGamingMultilingualUnknown–present Blocked GitHub github.com Code hosting English Jan 2013 – present Partially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible Gist (GitHub) gist.github.com Pastebin English Dec 2014 – present Blocked Hugging Face huggingface.co Artificial Intelligence Multilingual 2023–present BlockedFlipkartwww.flipkart.comOnline ShoppingMultilingualUnknown–presentBlockedZomatowww.zomato.comFood ServiceEnglishUnknown–presentBlockedClubhousewww.clubhouse.comSocialEnglishFebruary 2021 – presentBlockedSwiggywww.swiggy.comFood ServiceEnglishUnknown–presentBlockedTruth Socialwww.truthsocial.comSocial MediaEnglishFebruary 2022 – presentBlockedNational Weather Servicewww.weather.govWeatherEnglishUnknownUnblockedKanzhongguo (English)www.visiontimes.comNewspaperEnglishUnknown-presentBlockedKanzhongguo (Chinese)www.secretchina.com pdf.secretchina.comNewspaperChineseUnknown-presentBlockedMicrosoft CopilotCopilot.Microsoft.comArtificial IntelligenceMultilingualOctober 2024 – presentBlockedTelegramtelegram.orgMessagingMultilingualJuly 2015 – presentBlockedVoice of America (Chinese)www.voachinese.comNewspaperChineseUnknown-presentBlockedTeacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)lilaoshibushinilaoshi.comBlogChineseJune About 2023–presentBlockedDiscogsdiscogs.comDatabase and Online ShoppingMultilingualUnknown-presentBlockedJioSaavnjiosaavn.comMusic streamingMultilingualUnknown-presentBlockedPincongpincong.rocksh.pincong.rocksSocialChineseUnknown-presentBlockedChina News Digestcnd.orgNewsChinese, English1997–presentBlockedCircle 19www.circle19.orgNewsChinese、EnglishJuly 2025 – presentBlockedSorawww.sora.comArtificial IntelligenceMultilingual2024 – 24 April 2026Blocked (Service stopped)
See also
Censorship in China Censorship of Wikipedia Golden Shield Project Internet censorship in China List of websites blocked in Russia
References
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