As date of Tiananmen approaches, China’s Great Firewall cometh…and taketh
The Chinese Government in the digital/computer age has over the last several years made headlines around the world as various sites, services, and news events have been blocked by their “Almighty Firewall”. In an age of free information transport, it really is a shame the Chinese government skews their peoples’ views on world issues and even internal ones. As the anniversary date of the Tiananmen Square Massacre approaches, the Almighty Firewall is being kicked into “block happy” mode. Many social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, YouTube and more are now nothing but a blank and desolate page. Attempts to navigate around the firewall by use of outside proxies and VPN’s are proving to be no match for the latest round of “security” that is really aimed to quell free speech and the truth from coming home. While the news of another massive blacklisting of sites by the Chinese government is in actuality not news at all as it is becoming more and more commonplace, it’s still a reminder of how fortunate many other people around the world are that don’t have to put up with that s*** as well as to highlight the backwardness and unfair practices of the Chinese government. Chinese based readers, angered? Saddened? Or, business as usual?
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