To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
New York Times, June 2, 2009
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs
China's government censors have begun to block access to Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Microsoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens from any hint of the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown that ended the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.
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