China’s Great Firewall is demolishing foreign websites—and nobody knows why - Quartz

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To control its citizens’ access to the Internet, China uses the “Great Firewall of China” to block DNS requests passing through the nation’s closely monitored gateways to the outside world. Those DNS requests used to be sent to fake IP addresses. Now, some go to real IP addresses — with …