China's Twitter and Hotmail Locked Down as 20th Anniversary of Tienenman Square Approaches

Posted by Miranda Miller Jun 2, 2009

Just after 5:00pm Tuesday afternoon, Hotmail and Twitter were locked down across mainland China. Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the June 4th, 1989 tragedy in Tianenman Square (China has never released the death toll).

Some users reported an inability to access other popular social networking and photo exchange websites such as Windows Live and Flickr.

China is known to carefully monitor social networking sites for any language or messages considered subversive.

For the full story, read China Blocks Twitter Ahead of Tianenman Anniversary at Canada.com.