The Great Firewall Blocks Flickr, Twitter, Among Other Sites

Let today be known as the day the Chinese government impaled the internet with its mighty spear of technology and added Flickr, Twitter, Hotmail, bing.com, live.com to its repertoire of blocked sites. Other sites blocked in China include: Blogspot, Tumblr, YouTube, WordPress, China Digital Times, and Huffington Post.

56minus1 speculates this may have to do with Ai Weiwei joining Twitter. Lostlaowai says it has to do with that special 20th anniversary on Thursday.

Whatever the reason, this isn’t making my “I hate China” week any better.

Edit: an exhaustive list of all the websites “down for maintenance” has been compiled. Check it out here.

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One Response to “The Great Firewall Blocks Flickr, Twitter, Among Other Sites”

  • markovitc Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    My attempts to hit the HuffPo and Wordpress.com haven’t worked about a month–GFW also got wise to RSS content streams: pictures/videos from googleuser accts (blogspot, picasa, etc) don’t propogate via rss since… well I noticed some time last week.

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