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Great Firewall of China Winds Down; Censorship Battle Continues
Mashable Jun 09 09
Last Tuesday, China took dramatic steps to quiet chatter on the web by blocking Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Hotmail, YouTube, and a wide range of social websites. This was done in advance of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Well, it looks like the Great Firewall of China is finally coming down, at least for now. According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese Internet users have been regaining access to most social networking websites. However, it seems that the bans have not yet been lifted for YouTube and Blogger, both subsidiaries of Google.
This doesn’t mean that China is giving up censorship of the web. Full story...
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