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6/02/2009

China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)


It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, FlickrFlickr reviews, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. WordpressWordPress reviews, YouTubeYouTube reviews, Bloggerblogger reviews are also blocked.
According to early reports on TwitterTwitter reviews and on blogs it seems that the Chinese authorities want to quiet down the entire major social networking and social media part of the web ahead of the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen massacre on June 4th.
As far as solutions for evading the block go, you can find some advice here and here. Furthermore, Twitter may be working if you’re using third party apps to access it, such as TweetDeckTweetDeck reviews

1 Comments:

Blogger Pat R said...

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...

June 3, 2009 at 10:35 PM  

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