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Great Firewall blocks slideshow-sharing site

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Stephen Chenin Beijing

Mainland internet users can no longer access slideshare.net, a website where about 29 million people from around the world upload and share PowerPoint presentations and other types of documents.

Mainland users who tried to get onto the site got an error message. Access to the website from Hong Kong remained normal.

It is not clear why the site has been blocked. Most content on the website's front page yesterday was not political, and none of it was directly related to China.

Featured slideshows included a crash course on mathematics, a student's resume and criticism of the US health-care system.

The site does have material that would be banned on the mainland. The first presentation that pops up after searching for Tibet is titled 'Stop the cultural genocide in Tibet'. But that content was submitted four years ago.

The last major website blocked by the central government was Bloomberg.com, after the news agency published a story last month about the immense wealth of members of Vice-President Xi Jinping's family.

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