quelquefois » overheard http://quelquefois.net/toujours Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:16:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 The Great Firewall Blocks Flickr, Twitter, Among Other Sites http://quelquefois.net/toujours/2009/06/02/the-great-firewall-blocks-flickr-twitter-among-other-sites/ http://quelquefois.net/toujours/2009/06/02/the-great-firewall-blocks-flickr-twitter-among-other-sites/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:05:08 +0000 Chang http://quelquefois.net/toujours/?p=416 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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