China blocks access to Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail

[fake_innocent]

China has blocked its fellow netizen from numerous websites such as: Twitter, Flickr, Microsoft's own Bing.com, Live.com, Hotmail.com in the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protect of 1989 event.

"Microsoft's Bing.com, Live.com and Hotmail.com are among several Internet services that have been blocked for customers in China," Microsoft director of public affairs Kevin Kutz said in a statement received by AFP.

Youtube was also blocked from access earlier in March.

[takeshi]

ouch that sucks for the chinese. Seems like the censors are getting more and more serious. This government really...

[darku]

When will the chinas government end the blocking of different things...But what`s left for them to block? Aren`t they running out of options and blocked most of the internet? Hopefully there will be changes towards positive in the future.

[Hollinaz]

It doesn't make any sense on me 'cos most of the communist countries block so many websites, like "youtube, imeem, flickr, twitter and hotmail". In my country, I use many tunneling softwares and proxy sites to access them.

Some blocked sites in my country,

Mediafire,
Youtube,
Imeem
Flickr,
Yahoo,
Hotmail,
CNN,
Megaupload,
Crunchyroll,
GMail.

Those are just famous samples, and they blocked many other sites like "Friendster" and "Blogger"

China is now learning from his student.

[vietshortee]

dang that sucks....>.<

[chunman81]

super sucks. it cant simply be the tiananmen event that caused this...

[girlazn91]

Is it really necessary....thank god i dont live in China.

[chini mini]

noooooooooooooooo!

thats soo unfair... i cant believe this... well i am chinese as well. but i am livin in germany. i am so happy that i am not livin there. phew.

but its sooo bad, cause what should i do there without that? not even youtube is allowed. thats soo cruel!

[lu-xin]

Whoah..... when did this happen? that sucks.... Even hotmail! thats one of the main ways of communication isn't it? and Hollinaz, O.O i think i use about 90% of those sites you listed, it must be really hard for you to get stuff? >.<

[chunman81]

i just checked with some friends in china. looks like its certain parts of china thats blocked. my friend from wuhan can still use her hotmail