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Yahoo Confirms Beijing Blocking Flickr
slashthedot writes "In another instance of censorship against websites about anything anti-establishment in China, Flickr, popular among a growing class of digital photo enthusiasts in the world's second-largest Internet market, has not shown photos to users in mainland China since last week, amid rumors Beijing took action after images of the Tiananmen massacre in early June 1989 were posted. "It is our understanding that Flickr users in China are not able to see images on Flickr, and we have confirmed that this is not a technical issue on our end," a spokeswoman for Yahoo Hong Kong said in an email in response to a Reuters inquiry."
Nothing like a country terrified of its own citizens, or the companies out of the supposed Free World who won't pull the plug to prevent their technologies from being used by these kinds of pathetic cowards. It's alright, though. Investors are making money, so fuck liberty.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
That is kind of like asking if the US is evil or not. The answer is both yes and no.
If the Chinese people truly want to live under technocratic tyrants, then so be it. What I don't like is Western companies, who blossomed in an environment of political liberties who happily shed any notion of those liberties to make a buck. If that's what the Chinese want, then they shouldn't get help from Google and Microsoft, and those companies should be fined substantial amounts of money every time they help the Chinese authorities jail someone. Let China develop their own tools of repression. Why the fuck should we let Cisco do it for them?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
you should NOT have done it.
people will be seeing what crap you "people's" republic have pulled on people despite your muzzling attempts. get over with it, "party".
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