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China Blocks Foursquare; Too Many People Checking Into Tian’anmen
- cgranade 16y agoIt seems like the eventual trajectory of such censorship is the creation of a completely separate Internet that is China-only. With more and more sites from around the world being blocked, the demands aren't going away, and so parallel censorship-friendly sites go up inside The Great Firewall. I wonder if one day, China will get sick of maintaining the Firewall and just turn off connections to the rest of the world.
- costan 16y agoCensorship is horrible. But if you think it's restricted to China... think about what would happen if 10,000 people would tweet something sensitive on 9/11. My guess is something along the lines of http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/paul-chambers-convicted-f_n_570073.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/paul-chambers-convi...