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Twitter blocked in China
Written on 2 Jun, 2009 at 12:42 in Featured, Politics | viewed 448 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
The Great Firewall of China has grown again. Forty-eight hours ahead of the most sensitive date on the Chinese calendar, a host of popular websites, including photo-sharing site Flickr.com, search engines Livesearch.com and Bing.com (Microsoft’s answer to Google), as well as Hotmail, are all suddenly inaccessible, in addition to Twitter.com. Video-sharing site YouTube and blogger portals Wordpress and Blogspot have already been blocked for weeks. Full Story : TheglobeandMail.com…..
Wikipedia allowed in China
Written on 7 Apr, 2008 at 15:02 in Politics | viewed 190 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Chinese authorities have lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Still politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square are not allowed to appear. Wikipedia, which is written collaboratively by volunteers, has more than 2 million articles in English.