China Blocks Twitter > Censorship by a government has got to be the worst possible injustice to any citizen of our planet. Now, after blocking YouTube they are going after Twitter and other Social Media sites.
photo courtesy of: China Economic Net
Here is a report from the Silicone Valley / San Jose Business Journal
Reports from China Tuesday said that Twitter, Yahoo Inc.’s Flickr and other popular social media and Web sites have been blocked there two days before the anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square.
Chinese authorities have a history of being uncomfortable with their inability to control what gets said on the Internet, most recently shutting off access to Google Inc.’s YouTube site in March after footage was posted showing the country’s China’s crackdown on protests last year by Tibetans.
June 4 is one of their most sensitive dates, marking the anniversary of when tanks were sent into Tiananmen to crush weeks of student and worker protests, killing an untold number of them.
China is a fast emerging market, especially for Internet Business. I have a number of friends from China, and we do a lot of business there. In fact we are looking at opening an office there. This type of government censorship is scary…
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October 15th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
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