Access to facebook, twitter,

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 21 July, 2009 - 05:07.

Access to facebook, twitter, youtube, veoh, google (random blocking that also affects gmail) has been blocked. Searching for 'facebook blocked in china' tends to lead to a dead connection. All Chinese versions of the above sites are up and running because they can be monitored internally in China, whereas the foreign sites can't.

Some do escape the blocking, here is an interesting article
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e716cfc6-71a1-11de-a821-00144feabdc0.html

The blocking of foreign sites is supposedly to stop the spreading of news by foreigners, but if we really want to, we can use msn or hotmail. With regards to protesters, Blocking the net will achieve little, because they can text or call each other if they really really want to protest.

I am so fed up with the Chinese Government knee jerk reactions and it's nannying of it's people. What are they so afraid of?

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