mashable.com— It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites...
Jun 2, 2009View in Crawl 4
I suppose the nuts and bolts are this. Being told you can't, vs being lied to. Which is worse? The problem with China, is they are not, and never will be like the US. Never Ever. So take away China, and the US, and look at being denied information, and being lied to, can you see that point at least?
As of this morning, June 3rd 10:45 I can still get to my MSN mail, hotmail, Live Messenger, Live Groups, Live Spaces, etc. I know Twitter was blocked as were many websites access after the Olympics there were allowed when they were going on, I can live without Huffington Post thank you very much. Many social sites go down from time to time here and are usually available in 15 minutes or so, the Great Firewall of China is about as effictive as the wall on the US Mexico border. All will be normal in 24 to 48 hours, China just wants to maintain total control over its citizens, mostly no harm and no foul as the vast majorty of Chinese don't care.
If by "innocent lives" you mean "Western sponsored terrorists who captured a cache of weapons and were holed up and barricaded in the center of our capital city trying to foment a revolution to create a Western imperialist puppet government", then you'd be right.Of course, Western media won't report it like this, because it was their puppet insurgency that was smashed brilliantly. Their ploy to make China fall like the USSR failed utterly.
Oh please, the Chinese government had to bus in soldiers from way-off provinces because the capital troops were doing nothing or joining in on the protests.
Because you can't post anything related to the Tiananmen crackdown on any of the Chinese websites. Even if it passes the automatic filter, the admins would have been forced to take it down. These English sites, on the other hand, does not censor such things - which is why the government blocks it to prevent any kind of commemoration of the incident.
blackwing602Jun 2, 2009
My referrer logs are so lonely.I'll miss you, Baidu!
sl123000Jun 2, 2009
So you actually support censorship? Interesting.
spoon088Jun 2, 2009
China basically wants to encourage growth of their equivalent web sites. Lol at blocking Bing and Live, those sites are useless so no point.
negativeradJun 2, 2009
It's to bad they can't just block twitter in the US too...
nismerfJun 3, 2009
I suppose the nuts and bolts are this. Being told you can't, vs being lied to. Which is worse? The problem with China, is they are not, and never will be like the US. Never Ever. So take away China, and the US, and look at being denied information, and being lied to, can you see that point at least?
colinho22Jun 3, 2009
Oh well. They're probably better off without twitter anyway.
jybravo70Jun 3, 2009
As of this morning, June 3rd 10:45 I can still get to my MSN mail, hotmail, Live Messenger, Live Groups, Live Spaces, etc. I know Twitter was blocked as were many websites access after the Olympics there were allowed when they were going on, I can live without Huffington Post thank you very much. Many social sites go down from time to time here and are usually available in 15 minutes or so, the Great Firewall of China is about as effictive as the wall on the US Mexico border. All will be normal in 24 to 48 hours, China just wants to maintain total control over its citizens, mostly no harm and no foul as the vast majorty of Chinese don't care.
compucomp2Jun 3, 2009
If by "innocent lives" you mean "Western sponsored terrorists who captured a cache of weapons and were holed up and barricaded in the center of our capital city trying to foment a revolution to create a Western imperialist puppet government", then you'd be right.Of course, Western media won't report it like this, because it was their puppet insurgency that was smashed brilliantly. Their ploy to make China fall like the USSR failed utterly.
Closed AccountJun 3, 2009
Oh please, the Chinese government had to bus in soldiers from way-off provinces because the capital troops were doing nothing or joining in on the protests.
archangelzltJun 4, 2009
Because you can't post anything related to the Tiananmen crackdown on any of the Chinese websites. Even if it passes the automatic filter, the admins would have been forced to take it down. These English sites, on the other hand, does not censor such things - which is why the government blocks it to prevent any kind of commemoration of the incident.
monyxieJun 20, 2009
NOT really,learn GFW