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By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on June 3, 2009
Yesterday, Chinese Authorities blocked internet access to all social networking sites including Twitter, Flickr,Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites such as WordPress, YouTube, Blogger This seems to be a means of quieting dissent (which has been intensified with access to the internet)near the June 4th 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre.
The Chinese are proported to be the the top users of text and instant messaging in the world. It may be possible for those savvy users to get around the ban if they use desktop applications such as tweetdeck and seesmic or phone apps such as tweetie to relay their tweets.
Posted in Tech | Tagged blocked, censor, China, June4, politics, socail networking, Tianamen |
Nancy Raskauskas,Founder, Owner and Developer of the Cosmic Networks, is also the Middle and Upper School Computer Teacher at Worcester Preparatory School on the eastern Shore of Maryland. Nancy is a very creative teacher and a telented Graphic Artist. With a background in language arts and art, along with her talent for technology, Mrs. Raskauskas inspires students to move forward in computer skills. The winner of many state and national awards for her work with technology and children, Mrs. Raskauskas was named the Maryland Technology Teacher of the Year and has received national awards from the Computer Learning Foundation. Her writing appears in a number of web sites and publications.
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