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11.23.09

20 Years After Tiananmen, China Is Now Undemocratic 2.0

Government censors block access to Twitter and Flickr
By Anna Maria Jakubek Posted 06.03.2009 at 4:15 pm 7 Comments

This Thursday marks twenty years since China's military ended the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democratic demonstrations by killing off hundreds of students, workers, and ordinary civilians. It's fitting, then, that in celebration of the anniversary, the government is once again curbing free speech. Censors have been at it for weeks, but now they've even begun cutting citizens off from Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, and Microsoft's live.com.

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