"The Great Firewall" -- Flickr banned in China

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"The Great Firewall" -- Flickr banned in China

(Translation: connection failed. www.flickr.com is not available for connection)

WWW. is no longer world wide in China
20 years ago, they have guns and tanks; Now, they have Great Fire Walls.

In May, Chinese web police has already started to block several oversea websites, such as blogger, twitter, Youtube and flickr. ( Thank god. No NYT this time!)

On June 3rd, things get worse. Xiaonei( Chinese version of Facebook) and Fanfou(Chinese version of twitter), both of which are convenient for people to post articles and enjoy a large number of users, are “ under construction ” which literally means that you either cannot post or you cannot log in at all.

Before this day, Chinese web police has always been banning people to post “politically incorrect” articles. Once you write something like “64” , “civil movement” or else, there would be a reminder of not being able to post it because of some improper words, regardless of your real intention.

Being probably the most active and angry group, Chinese netizens have successfully shown to the government their power and concern. Maybe because of this, starting this year or even earlier, Chinese government has been the strictest ever seen in controlling websites. Douban, a very popular website introducing books, music and movies, once most famous for the availability to the best blogs of China, has been shutting down groups and deleting articles that have the risk of challenging the government. And in Hangzhou, the local government lately announced that netizens must write their real names and ID number when they register and post articles.

Maybe Taiwan did set a good example for mainland when it ultimately opened resources about the Feb 28th incident of 1947. When people can talk about it, write about it and hopefully gradually look at it in a sensible and historical way, they won’t bother to have another revolution at all. And no student, no civil man will have to die in the violence of his own country.

--Posted in the US on behalf of my dearest Friend "Velma," who is behind the Great Firewall.

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Taken on: June 3, 2009
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