China blocks Twitter service ahead of anniversary

Reuters ^ | 6/2/09 | Lucy Hornby

[anniegetyourgun]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the twentieth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square.

Indignant users filled chatrooms with protest, after access to Twitter was denied shortly after 5:00 pm (0900 GMT) on Tuesday.

"The whole Twitter community in China has been exploding with it," said Beijing-based technology commentator Kaiser Kuo.

"It's just part of life here. If anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long."

[anniegetyourgun]

Of course, this would never happen in the U.S....what with that cyberczar and all....

[the invisib1e hand]

Of course, this would never happen in the U.S....what with that cyberczar and all....

unless we become a wholly-owned susidiary...

ahh...shades of solyent green...

[jiggyboy]

access to Twitter was denied shortly after 5:00 pm (0900 GMT) on Tuesday.

On the other hand, office productivity has coincidentally increased by about 10% country-wide.

[Don Corleone]

Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday

This will be the job of Bambi's "CyberCzar". He will be a dictator...just you wait. What's the over/under on no 2010 elections now???

[anniegetyourgun]

shades of sign of the times