Friday 15 January 2010

China's cyberdoor kicked down by Google



Sometime in the last three days Google flung China's door to the global Internet wide open.
This is the YouTube link on www.google.com.cn to videos showing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Amnesty International commentary on the student protests is also able to be viewed, including this photo:


A China Daily article on Google's stand against China's Internet policy and recent hacking attempts is also intermittently available, although there have been reports that Baidu (dominant search engine backed by Chinese Government) is blocking access to Google's official blog post but not to links mentioning it.

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