Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Blocked Websites in China
Facebook is a blocked website because after July 2009 because Xinjiang independence activists were using Facebook as a part of their communication network. Some Chinese users also believed that Facebook would not succeed in China after Google problems. The popular Renren social network has many features similar to Facebook, and complies with PRC Government regulations regarding content flirting. As of 20 August 2013, China has unblocked Facebook.
YouTube was first blocked in the people's Republic of China for several months from October 15, 2007 to March 22, 2008. It was blocked again from March 24, 2009, although a foreign Ministry spokesperson would not confirm nor deny whether YouTube had been blocked. Since then, YouTube is not accessible from China.
Twitter was blocked in China; however, many Chinese people use it anyway. In 2010 Cheng Jianping was sentenced to 1 year in a labor camp for tweeting a comment that suggested boy cotters of Japanese products should instead attack the Japanese Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo. Access to Twitter is currently blocked by the government in China.
Myspace is Currently unblocked but YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are blocked in China. the Chinese citizens wanted all websites to be unblocked, but all of them except Myspace is blocked in China. The government said it was OK to not shut down Myspace.
Although Instagram hasn't visibly promoted itself in the Chinese market, it's been very successful with Chinese citizens. Just a month after the update was integrated, more than 100,000 images were uploaded in china. While Chinese government seems unperturbed by Instagram's growing popularity, one user said her photos are bad criticism by people who say she's portraying the country in bad light for China itself.
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I bet that just about everyone in China uses these. This time in the world there are so many online places to go. It would be impossible to keep everyone from accessing all of these. If they are trying to keep the Chines isolated from the rest of the world its not working. People want to interact with other people from the other side of the world and if someone wants something enough they will do anything to get to it.
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