Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the world’s biggest fanfiction sites, appeared to be blocked in China on Feb 29 as regulators further tightened Internet controls, with some users furiously blaming fans of a popular actor for the government’s action.
“Unfortunately, the Archive of Our Own is currently inaccessible in China,” the Organisation for Transformative Works, a US non-profit group that operates AO3, said on its Twitter account. “We've investigated, and it is not due to anything on our end.”
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