Net breakdown blamed on censors

(The Standard 23 Jan, 2014) China's internet suffered a massive breakdown as traffic was routed to an overseas site linked to the banned religious group Falun Gong - a fiasco a monitoring group blamed on the censors.

Web users had trouble accessing numerous sites, said Greatfire.org, which tracks the Great Firewall censor network.

Internet users were sent to an IP address owned by US-based Dynamic Internet Technology, which runs a tool called FreeGate designed to bypass censors.

The IP address is linked to dongtaiwang.com, a news portal run by Falun Gong members, Greatfire.org said.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE