RSSChina Blocks Flickr Over Tiananmen Pics
By the Betanews Staff | Published June 12, 2007, 11:04 AM
Yahoo said Tuesday that it had reason to suspect that China was blocking its Flickr photo-sharing site. The move came after pictures of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were posted to the site, which drew the ire of the Chinese government. While Flickr apparently loads, the image links are non functional and the company has confirmed it is not experiencing any technical difficulties.
Discussion of the Tiananmen massacre Square is forbidden in the country, and state media, the Internet, and books have been scrubbed of any references to the event. Yahoo did not specifically say whether the pictures were uploaded by a Chinese resident or by someone outside the country.
You can see the pics of the massacre at http://www.flickr.com/ph...us/tags/tiananmensquare/
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|Can visit it now.
In recent days, many websites (IP address) are banned in China. Unfortunately My website http://www.topearl.com/ places in USA; on June 10,2007, its IP address was banned because of some reasons. I can not visit my website from China, so I have to change the IP address. :(
But I think that it's normal to check the Internet content for the government.
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|Gotta love how the corporate world turns a blind eye and is bent by the will of the oppressive, communist government in China. I recall a while back Google (Microsoft too?) pretty much agreed to censor whatever content the Chinese government asked of them, just so their search engine was allowed in the country. I'm very surprised the Chinese people themselves have put up with this crap for so long and all this censorship and oppression hasn't yet resulted in civil war.
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|I wonder if China blocks BetaNews?
Nihao, Deng...
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|Wow! Chinese spoken here. Cool. BTW and although I'm not Deng, I'm well.
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|And this surprises people?
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|"Tiananmen massacre Square"
Order in words wrong.
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|many sites not just yahoo flickr,
such as google cache,google pages,blogspot,wikipedia...
almost all well-known blogs,spaces are blocked beacuse they may have sexy content or some words against the goverment
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