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China blocks Twitter, other social media sites

Posted by Natasha Roman on 6/02/09 • Categorized as Asia, Politics

Per The Huffington Post, China has put a massive block on Twitter and other social media sites that allow people to freely post their thoughts. June 4 is the 20th Anniversary of the Tienanmen Square crackdown, where citizens protested in support of democracy. The Chinese government response to the protest resulted in hundreds of people dying.

It is not entirely uncommon of the Chinese government to block such sites that are “deemed controversial before major events,” but today marks the first time that China has put a “wide spread censorship of social media.” The block is predicted to last at least until the anniversary date passes, according to the article.

The following is a list of all known social media sites that have been blocked in China:  Twitter, YouTube, Blogspot, Tumblr, Livejournal, Flickr, Microsoft’s Live.com and the Huffington Post.

The Twitterverse shared their feelings on the Twitter block in China.

  1. Jasmine DK Shepard
    jdkshepard (Augusta, GA) China blocks twitter? I swear they’d block the sun if they could. let your people free. 02 Jun 2009 from web
  2. Shelly Renee
    ShellyRenee (California) China Blocks Twitter Thats Not Fair!!! ;( 02 Jun 2009 from web
  3. Coni
    Hawgs38 (New England) Anyone need a reminder how fortunate we are here in the USA? #China blocks Twitter, et al b4 Tiananmen 20th anniversary http://ff.im/-3vjaV 02 Jun 2009 from web
  4. Sandi Chrush
    sandi4ebs @PeaceProfit (Pennsylvania) Just happy i don’t live in a country where the government has the audacity to pull a “China Blocks Twitter” stunt. 02 Jun 2009 from web in reply to PeaceProfit
  5. Didi Mudigdo
    didijazz (Bangkok) Feeling sorry for my friends in China who can no longer access Twitter/Hotmail/Bing/YouTube/Flickr etc. http://tinyurl.com/mc33bp 02 Jun 2009 from web
  6. Ron Mitchell
    SuccessInAll (New York) China blocks Twitter: Wonder if that will start a trend in any other country.
    Twitter is to cool to get blocked.     02 Jun 2009 from web
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  • it's a clash of the Titans -- China versus Twitter and Microsoft
  • P
    how is it possible that the chinese people take all that crap ?
  • Some one
    I'm chinese and i love twitter, flickr and othe web 2.0 website service, now they are all blocked at my country.
    I feel angry but i can do nothing.
    Maybe i could use proxy to access these websites.
    Actually many friends of mine don't know the Tiananmen anniversary, but the blocking of many websites reminds them. This is a black humour.
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