Chinese Takeaway Twitter

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On Thursday 2nd June 2009 it will be the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre when an undisclosed number of student protesters were killed after tanks rolled into squash the protests. You might imagine, then, that in China services such as Twitter would be a-buzz with talk about the day. Well it probably would have been, had the Chinese authorities not closed it down on Tuesday.

Various chatroom sources are saying that both Twitter and Hotmail have been blocked throughout the mainland of China since 5pm on Tuesday, China time. There have also been some reports of Windows Live and Flickr being unavailable.

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was on the money: contemporaneous reporting documents a coordinated internet clampdown in mainland China in the days before the 20th anniversary of June 4, 1989. Multiple outlets recorded that reliable access to a number of foreign services was cut or disrupted beginning the evening of June 2, 2009 (around 5:00 p.m. Beijing time), with the action timed to limit online discussion ahead of June 4. (wired.com)

That shutdown was part of a wider pattern, not just a single-site outage. Many domestic portals and forums either blocked comment sections or returned “closed for maintenance” splash pages — a phenomenon mockingly labelled by netizens as “Chinese Internet Maintenance Day.” The move sat alongside tighter controls on university boards and restrictions on foreign reporters working the anniversary. (theguardian.com)

Users reacted in different ways (from ’s wry take on Twitter addicts to ’s short commemoration). Some mainland users still managed to post via proxies, VPNs and third‑party clients, and bloggers such as Michael Anti had already warned that microblogging services were likely targets. Those workarounds were temporary and uneven, but they explain why some activity still showed up even while mainstream access was curtailed. (wired.com)

Human-rights groups recorded detentions and harassment at the same time, so the internet blocks should be read as one element in a broader security posture that week. Contemporary news reports and press statements (for example, Amnesty International’s June 3, 2009 briefing) provide the clearest public record of the events and the online tactics used around the anniversary. (amnesty.org)

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Take Twitter away from Twitter addicts. Perhaps they will revolt on this particular blockage!

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On Thursday 2nd June 2009 it will be the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre when an undisclosed number of student protesters were killed after tanks rolled into squash the protests. You might imagine, then, that in China services such as Twitter would be a-buzz with talk about the day. Well it probably would have been, had the Chinese authorities not closed it down on Tuesday.

Various chatroom sources are saying that both Twitter and Hotmail have been blocked throughout the mainland of China since 5pm on Tuesday, China time. There have also been some reports of Windows Live and Flickr being unavailable.[/QUOTE


just want say happy annivesary!.....

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