A Chinese friend told me that the Chinese Communist government has blocked the access to Chinese Wikipedia so people in China can't visit the website of Chinese Wikipedia unless they use special technology such as “VPN” or something else. I'd downloaded the entire entries database of English Wikipedia and I sent the Chinese friend an E-mail telling him the way to download the off-line database of English Wikipedia. That friend replied to me “Thank you for your information. In order to let more people know the downloading method, I translated your message into Chinese and then posted it on a popular forum website of China, but the administrator of the forum censored this thread and decided not to post it to the public, i.e. nobody can see this free Wikipedia downloading message on that forum website. I'm sorry.”
I can't understand why the Chinese Communist government is so afraid of allowing their people read Wikipedia. Don't you think it's some kind of stupid paranoia? (PS: the Communist has also blocked Facebook, YouTube and many other popular websites)
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