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China blocks websites ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
It's as if millions of twatters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
I'm having a hard time imagining political movements getting started with twitter, honestly. The character limit is no good for rousing speeches.
And do we really need to stop people from going to youtube and watching videos of baby ducks because of something that happened twenty years ago?
Does this happen every year? Just once a year the goverment goes "FUCKING SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!"?
Alternate topic: Social networking sites are for gays.
by Chris Lefkow – 1 hr 40 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – China is blocking access to Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, and its Hotmail email service, the company said ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
"Microsoft's Bing.com, Live.com and Hotmail.com are among several Internet services that have been blocked for customers in China," Microsoft director of public affairs Kevin Kutz said in a statement received by AFP.
"We are reaching out to the government to understand this decision and find a way to move forward," Kutz said.
"Microsoft is committed to helping advance the free flow of information, and is committed to encouraging transparency, due process and rule of law when it comes to Internet governance," he added.
Microsoft did not say when China began blocking the sites, but Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it had been notified by Chinese Web users that access to the websites began being blocked inside China on Tuesday.
"Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the blockage of a dozen websites such as Twitter, YouTube, Bing, Flickr, Opera, Live, Wordpress and Blogger in China," the media rights group said in a statement.
"The Chinese government stops at nothing to silence what happened 20 years ago in Tiananmen Square," it said. "By blocking access to a dozen websites used daily by millions of Chinese citizens, the authorities have opted for censorship at any price rather than accept a debate about this event."
Asked to comment on the Chinese moves, a US State Department spokesman said there would be a more expansive US response on Wednesday, but underscored that US policy "supports freedom of expression."
"With regard to any activities that the Chinese government is undertaking in connection with the anniversary... we will have more to say (Wednesday) through a statement on the anniversary," spokesman Robert Wood told reporters.
"The issue of human rights is a very important element of our relationship with China," he added.
There was no immediate comment from Yahoo!, which owns photo-sharing site Flickr, or Twitter to emails from AFP asking about the reported blocking of their websites by China.
Google-owned YouTube has been blocked inside China since March.
Rights group Freedom House, which is funded by the US government and private groups, condemned the Chinese government?s blocking of the websites.
"China's decision to block these sites today represents the latest salvo in a relentless campaign to erase the past," executive director Jennifer Windsor said in a statement.
"China is blocking sites like Twitter and Flickr because they provide a means for people to circumvent government control and mobilize dissent."
China's foreign correspondents' association on Tuesday condemned moves by authorities in Beijing to block reporting in the run-up to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) said it had received at least three reports of authorities blocking reporting at Tiananmen Square and intimidating journalists or their sources.
The country's communist leadership sent soldiers to forcibly clear the square and surrounding areas on the night of June 3-4, 1989, ending seven weeks of protests calling for political reforms.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed in the crackdown, which remains a taboo subject in China.
It's as if millions of twatters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
I'm having a hard time imagining political movements getting started with twitter, honestly. The character limit is no good for rousing speeches.
And do we really need to stop people from going to youtube and watching videos of baby ducks because of something that happened twenty years ago?
Does this happen every year? Just once a year the goverment goes "FUCKING SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!"?
Alternate topic: Social networking sites are for gays.
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Strikingly apt
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I mean stop caring about civil rights abuses. Which I suppose means if people stop caring about these things and give up the government can run amok and has "won" and since the government is officially "communist" etc etc
I'm not in the mood to argue semantical bullshit
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get it right damn you
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i mean wait
shit
Maybe Viv can elaborate?
I don't know how to feel about the existence of this website.
May our great leaders and the party continue to shine upon us for one hundred years!
light, traffic, and queues in mcdonalds are just some of the things viv blocks
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you can take the chinese out of china, but
For all you know those people could have been dead before they arrived at Tianmen Square.
younger generations do not know the details of the massacre
they know something happened, but they do not know the how or the why
it sucks and I do not like the fact that they refuse to own up to that part of their history
and funny enough, I find Suppository's post on the first page mind-bogglingly retarded
you know which one
don't be stupid
even if I were still in China it's not like they'd block a low-traffic website from outside the country for it
more than that, this is a website that Chinese people don't care about
the government cares what their own people are most likely to see, not what everyone ELSE sees
stop being an idiot
it's not like they're proud of it or anything
I know some of the reasons why they do it and I don't agree with them, but you're just acting like a cock
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somebody stepped on a raw nerve
I don't know why it bugs me but it always does
probably because I know he's more intelligent than that
ugh whatever I honestly get too angry and frustrated to keep talking about China on this forum, I didn't even spot the thread until Blake mentioned it
If need be my cadre will send you literature on the error of your ways. Also, we have a number of education camps that can do roughly the same thing and at the same time teach you the value of working outdoors!
I for one say we suppress more information! More information just gets in the way of basking in the glory of the glorious leadership.
Glory!
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i suspect, and this is only a suspicion, that he may have made that post light-heartedly