{"id":1214320,"date":"2022-09-30T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/google-appears-to-have-disabled-google-translate-in-parts-of-china\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:26:02","slug":"google-appears-to-have-disabled-google-translate-in-parts-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/google-appears-to-have-disabled-google-translate-in-parts-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Google appears to have disabled Google Translate in parts of China \u2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Google appears to have disabled access to Google Translate in parts of China, redirecting visitors to the Hong Kong domain \u2014 which isn\u2019t accessible from the mainland. According to users on Reddit and site archives viewed by , Google swapped the Google Translate interface at translate.google.cn with a generic Google Search page at some point within the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The change is reportedly impacting the translation features of apps like KOReader, a document viewer, for China-based users, as well as Chrome\u2019s built-in translation functionality. Google hasn\u2019t responded to a request for comment; we\u2019ll update this piece if we hear back.<\/p>\n<p>Google has a long and complicated relationship with the Chinese government. In 2006, the company entered the Chinese market with a version of its search engine that was subject to government censorship rules. But after state-sponsored hacks and government-ordered blocks on Google services in response to YouTube footage showing Chinese security forces beating Tibetans, Google shut down Google Search in the mainland and briefly rerouted searches through its uncensored Hong Kong domain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2415159\" style=\"width: 753px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2415159\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2415159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-171354.png\" alt=\"Google Translate blocked\" width=\"743\" height=\"453\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2415159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The current Google Translate homepage in many parts of China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google reportedly explored relaunching Google Search in China in 2018 and 2019 as part of a project code-named Dragonfly, which would\u2019ve censored results and recorded users\u2019 locations as well as their internet browsing histories. But those plans were scuttled following clashes within Google led by the company\u2019s privacy team, according to The Intercept.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, following the enactment of a national security law in Hong Kong that gave local authorities greatly expanded surveillance powers, Google said it wouldn\u2019t directly respond to data requests from the Hong Kong law enforcement and instead would have them go through a mutual legal assistance treaty with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming it\u2019s not a technical issue, the disabling of Google Translate in much of the mainland could be related to the upcoming National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which takes place October 16. The Chinese government has previously blocked Google services around major political events and politically sensitive anniversaries like that of the Tiananmen Square massacre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google appears to have disabled access to Google Translate in parts of China, redirecting visitors to the Hong Kong domain \u2014 which isn\u2019t accessible from the mainland. According to users on Reddit and site archives viewed by , Google swapped the Google Translate interface at translate.google.cn with a generic Google Search page at some point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}