Facebook Inaccessible in China After Violent Clashes in Urumqi

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    Date: 
    11 July 2009

    acebook Inc.’s social-networking Web site was inaccessible in China as the government blocks information after violent clashes in one of its regions.

    As of 1:36 p.m. Beijing time, there were at least 36 reports of Facebook.com being unavailable from China, according to Herdict.org, a project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which tracks Web outages. Local access to the YouTube.com video site of Google Inc. was also broken, and connections to Amazon.com Inc.’s online store were irregular.