p2pnet - rss feed: Flickr China offline
p2pnet.net news:- On the heels of Yahoo’s protestations that it’s really sorry people are being jailed in China for expressing their views online, its Flickr is probably being blocked by the Chinese government, Yahoo Hong Kong says.
Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd is the company said to have released information to Chinese police which later resulted in dissidents with Yahoo accounts being thrown into jail.
“Flickr has not shown photos to users in mainland China since last week, amid rumors that Beijing took action after images of the Tiananmen Square massacre in early June 1989 were posted,” says Reuters.
“We are currently investigating this issue and hope that it is only a temporary one,” it has a spokesperson saying.
Officials from China’s Ministry of Information Industry could not be reached for comment Tuesday, says the story, adding:
“The Communist Party has banned references to the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square crackdown in state media, the Internet and books as part of a whitewash campaign, meaning that most young Chinese are ignorant of the events.
“Public discussion of the massacre is still taboo in China, and the government has rejected calls to overturn the verdict that the student-led protests were subversive. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed when the army crushed the democracy movement.
“A newspaper in southwest China fired three of its editors over an advertisement saluting mothers of protesters killed in the crackdown, sources told Reuters last week.”
Also See:
really sorry - Yahoo ‘dismayed’ by China jailings, June 12, 2007
Reuters - Yahoo: China’s censoring Flickr, June 12, 2007
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