Here comes another ban from China on Web services; Twitter, Blogger and Bing along with numerous other services have been banned. These bans aren’t something new as earlier the country had banned Plurk as well. I wonder why is it that the country has got such a harsh policy on web services that it keeps banning one or another at various times. Perhaps it considers itself to be responsible at safeguarding its population from external influence. Anyone with better reasons?
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[...] China might be blocking a countless sites in the country, which include Twitter, Plurk and Bing from being accessed for no [...]
[...] of total control over access to Web services and it had shown this earlier by blocking access to Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Bing and the list just won’t stop. However the latest reports on various [...]
[...] a web service to keep people from sharing news or discussing current situation in your country? China is famed for doing so and Iran followed in yesterday by blocking FriendFeed. Was that to suppress [...]
[...] appears more like a routine that China has followed over the past and many other services including Twitter, Facebook, Plurk to name just a few. While this ban has been lifted from a few of the services for [...]
why don’t the chinese just block the north korean missiles instead of twitter? just asking.
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“Better reasons”? Um… could it be that the PRC is a totalitarian state and doesn’t want its subjects to get information that doesn’t come from their enlightened all-knowing leaders? Once the Chinese people start getting information that doesn’t come from the state, they start to want things like freedom and democracy.
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Well I guess blocking sites doesn’t get you into ‘direct’ confrontation with nations. Blocking what you just ask, might trigger a catastrophe. Won’t it?
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@David. You might be totally right with that. We find it hard to digest that Startup Meme gets NO reader from mainland China. Though we share nothing of that would fuel rebellion there. Ban on Porn/adult sites or even on gambling/betting sites sounds reasonable, but Search engines, Tech Blogs? Are we missing something?
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Information and outside access is what brought the Berlin Wall down. China’s trying to do what the USSR and Germany couldn’t do: have the successes of a capitalist system w/o it’s open society. Unfortunately we seem to be headed in that failed direction as well.
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You can’t imagine the reason of blocking,I’m a Chinese,and i am so disappointed in government.They just don’t want to lose their power and so they always control Press,TV and internet.Maybe some of you cannot understand,but this is fact,I don’t want to live in this country at all…
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yeah! and i was really hoping to visit china. i wonder what china has against twitter.
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it has everything against everything to put it precisely, i just read that they require PC vendors to have a built in program to ‘auto-ban’ sites.
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