Social Networking Watch: China Blocks Access To Twitter, Facebook …

TECH CRUNCH — July 7 — Following last weekend’s deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government has blocked Twitter, removed unapproved references to the violence from search engines and has now apparently …

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New Media, New Repression: China Blocks Social Networking Sites …

To mark the event that the government assures never happened, the Chinese government has blocked most social networking sites.

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China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)

It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. WordPress, YouTube, Blogger are also blocked . According to early reports on Twitter and on blogs it seems that the Chinese authorities want to quiet down the entire major social networking and social media part of the web ahead of the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen massacre on June 4th.

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