This is pretty par for the course, given the once / ten years party congress that is going on. Every year around June 4 (anniversary of Tiananmen "incident") a

This is pretty par for the course, given the once / ten years party congress that is going on. Every year around June 4 (anniversary of Tiananmen "incident") and typically around Oct 1 (national day) Google gets blocked for a few days. China is much more adept at censoring the Internet than everyone thought 5-10 years ago.