It’s no surprise when China censors a site with anti-government content, but starting last week the country has potentially cut access to scores of non-political sites with a block on U.S. content delivery network EdgeCast Networks.

The “Great Firewall of China” has begun filtering out more sites and networks connected to EdgeCast customers, preventing the services from appearing in the country, the Verizon-owned company said in a blog post Monday.

“This week we’ve seen the filtering escalate with an increasing number of popular web properties impacted,” it said. “and even one of our many domains being partially blocked…with no rhyme or reason as to why.”

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