Chinese Censors Cut Off Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr (Updated)

Jane Macartney reports in the Times from Beijing: Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly tech-savvy population to vast swathes of the internet. The first victims were the rising p ...
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8 Responses to Chinese Censors Cut Off Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr (Updated)

  1. Sara says:

    Check out Hotspot Shield to circumvent these recent government activities. I have access to Twitter, Facebook, etc. currently!

  2. Sara says:

    I forgot to include the URL — http://www.hotspotshield.com.

  3. [...] China Digital Times reports that inside China some users “have found ways to circumvent” the barriers and [...]

  4. [...] did anyone even notice this was blocked?). You might already be aware, as there are more than a few stories about this on the internet [...]

  5. Eric Havaby says:

    Hotmail is not blocked everywhere. I can get into it here in Guangxi.

  6. Ana says:

    Video on China’s Great Firewall and foreign media blackout. Don’t think the source has been blacked-out in China yet http://www.newsy.com/videos/newsy_in_depth_report_china_s_internet_maintenance_day

  7. Smokey says:

    apparently China wants to keep it old school, Web 1.0, until further notice

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