China Blocks Popular Web Services

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer

China has blocked Flickr, Hotmail, Twitter, MSN Spaces, Bing, and YouTube among other services. Hmm, I wonder why that could be? Commentary from Danwei and coverage from Reuters, the Register, and Fox News.

Update 11:45PM 3 June: Danwei has more details, including a link to a spreadsheet that’s purportedly tracking blocked sites.

Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, ISP

2 Responses to “China Blocks Popular Web Services”

  1. Info/Law » Filtering v3.0, on June 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am Said:

    [...] 2.0: filtering is possible, but only done by bad actors / authoritarian states (China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, [...]

  2. Internet Filtering v3.0 « ubiwar . conflict in n dimensions, on June 4th, 2009 at 12:52 am Said:

    [...] 2.0: filtering is possible, but only done by bad actors / authoritarian states (China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, [...]

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