- http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/06/03/vause.chang.tiananmen.anniv.cnn
- Chinese using umbrellas to block reporting from Tiananmen Square
- added 4 June, 2009
China blocks Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/02/twitter-china
Chinese censors blocked access to Twitter and other popular online services on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown on democracy protests in Tiananmen Square which cost hundreds of lives.
The
move came as authorities detained a leading dissident and ordered
another to leave Beijing in an indication of the intense sensitivity
around Thursday's anniversary....
- http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/china-blocks-twitter-and-almost-everything-else/
- It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr (
), Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. Wordpress (
), YouTube (), Blogger () are also blocked...
- http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0602/breaking30.htm
- Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and e-mail
service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late today, two days
before the twentieth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen
Square.
1 comment:
maybe we've got it all wrong -- maybe China is actually blocking these sites in an attempt to bring as much attention to the Tiananmen Square massacre as possible...
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