The Great Firewall of China Stands Tall, Still Not Unbeatable

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 06/04/2009 - 03:31

china flagToday is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre , and Twitter and other social network are abuzz about it.

However, in China, most of the social networks and search engines - YouTube, Wordpress, Twitter, Flickr, Bing, and others - have been blocked in the last couple of days.

Yesterday, more sites were blocked, including Chinese microblogging service Fanfou.com , but since it’s a local site, its blocked in a different way than...


 

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