Twitter And Bing Shutdown In China As Tiananmen Date Looms
It’s widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship – to put it mildly – on what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which is served from outside of China. YouTube has been blocked for some time and although Wikipedia was blocked for a while, it’s gradually become more available. However today Chinese authorities have brought the the Great Wall of China on a number of services including Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail, Blogger and a number of other sites. The picture is patchy across the country between ISPs and geography, but my sources – who all agreed to be named in this post – say the ban is blanket ban is closing.
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