China shuts down Twitter and Bing in lead up to Tiananmen anniversary
from Techcrunch…
Ryan McLaughlin, an ex-pat Amercian writer and web designer/developer based outside Beijing, said [updated:] that VPNs, which many Chinese use to get around the Great Firewall, are not being affected by the shutdown. He also blogs “Undoubtedly the blocks are in an effort to curb online commentary and the dissemination of information about the , which on celebrates its 20th anniversary.”
More splogging from Techcrunch the all mighty…
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