[grey_whiskers]

Just now China appears to have shut down most or all of its international Internet access. They can’t tolerate any further evidence like this leaking out to Twitter.

DAFUQ.

Can you name any sites which would allow me to test that?

I don't doubt you, but I want to get a feel or gauge for the scope. The more crackdown on Twatter, Faecesbook, "mom and pop" and individual accounts, and the more "stirring patriotic music" on the official sites that ARE still allowed, the worse it is.

Might be time to go to Home Depot and buy out their supply of masks, and load up on vegetables. I have enough vitamins and Whey protein powder and olive oil to fend off starvation...

[Mr. Jeeves]

I can still see Chinese sites - but e-mails to Chinese recipients are suddenly not going through and we don't know what, if any, international sites they are being allowed to see. The Great Firewall did not block most international sites before - maybe it does, now.

I don't know if it is a complete lockdown or just an attempt to screen out the transmission of video content from inside the quarantine zone to Western sites. I'm sure we will hear more in a few hours.