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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