Tag: Flickr

2009 anti-censorship tools Beijing bloggers censorship Chongqing Fang Binxing fifty cent party Great Firewall hotmail Internet blocking Internet censorship Llasa online activism photo photos Tibet Twitter video Xiamen PX Yahoo yanming

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 population of tweeters, who use the micro-blogging service Twitter as a platform for humour — often s