To prevent the disturbing questions on the military crackdown that ended the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, China has blocked access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Microsoft’s live.com. In the wake of the 20th anniversary Tiananmen Square incident, the Chinese authorities have already blocked Chinese users from viewing all videos on YouTube.
Any talk about the Tiananmen crackdown, in which army troops killed hundreds of student demonstrators, workers and ordinary citizens, is still remains a taboo in China. As a precautionary measure to ward off from the information on this sensitive incident, the government had detained a number of political dissidents seen as threats to public order during the anniversary period.
People in China who tried to gain access to the blocked Web sites encountered an error message saying the sites’ servers had unexpectedly dropped the Internet connection.
Via: New York Times
