Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail Banned in China
By Dyske June 2nd, 2009
Today, the Chinese government blocked Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, two days ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Apparently YouTube was also banned earlier this year. At this rate, where do they stop? There are plenty of other services that offer similar functions. I would imagine that the users will simply move from one service to another.
By banning these services, wouldn’t they bring more attention to the subject that they are trying so hard to suppress? Even the people who didn’t know about the Tiananmen Square massacre would now start searching for the reason why the government suddenly shut down all these services on the same day, and I would imagine that they’ll find the reason sooner or later, and realize how significant the issue is for the government. Or, perhaps, the Chinese citizens are used to this type of treatment, and they don’t make anything of it. Either way, investing in Internet related busiensses in China is clearly risky. After investing millions of dollars, they might just shut you down one day and give the business to the competitors.
Newshunter says:
June 4th, 2009 at 7:06 pmThe mentality of the Chinese government has hardly evolved in 20 years, but at least there’s no more slaughtering of students. This clip is pretty balanced: http://www.newsy.com/videos/tiananmen_s_taboo_twenty
sisiwon says:
June 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pmyes,i am from china
i can’t understand all of this english,
but i am intrested in it.
the government’s behavior is not wise
but now i don’t anti it
kajova wears nylons says:
July 14th, 2009 at 6:27 amOh those people.
Mortishka@girlsandnylons says:
July 17th, 2009 at 10:59 amOh those people.
The man says:
December 28th, 2009 at 3:12 amGoody! Youtube.com is full of filth anyway.
I love how China<3 can control how much revenue a service website makes. Like saying Hotmail will now lose a couple 100 million visits due to China<3 banning them until they pay up or stop argueing or something if there is any kind of business going on under the table. I <3 China<3.
But is that how things work? I dunno realy, I'm just 13yrs.
Junko says:
January 30th, 2012 at 7:09 pmThey say that facebook was banned in China, but my Chinese friends use them regularly in China. So I guess the firewall isn’t that strong after all.
Nigel says:
February 3rd, 2012 at 6:43 amI’m from China. In my opinion, the famous demonstration in 1989 is just a joke. The both sides, government and protesters, they both thought they stand for justice. But as I see, nobody is right. The hole thing is just bullshit…
Nigel says:
February 3rd, 2012 at 6:49 amAnd, the so-called “peaceful demonstration” was not peaceful at all. Witness can proove it, nut no one ever litsen to them.
daphne says:
February 3rd, 2012 at 11:44 amactually I‘m using hotmail in china
but twitter is banned
also facebook and u2be
there are lots of gossip discrbing china which turns out to be just like a joke
believe me you’ll never understand such a place until you see it by your own eyes since it’s sooo different from where you have been brought up