The internet in China is down for a day.
By scififan43
@scififan43 (2434)
United States
June 4, 2009 3:24pm CST
Hi all myloters, here is another net posting on China. Yesterday I posted a artitcal on a Chiness leader who was exilied to the us. as of today wired magizine is reporting that the internet is China is down. This is becase of the aniverisery of the Tiananmen Square protest from 20 years ago. It says that some sites have shut down under govermet preussure becase it does not want them disuseeing the topic of the events of the protest form two decades ago. Internet sites are staiting that the reason for the temrory shutdown is for mantince.
What some are claiming here is censorship on the part of the Chinesse goverment.
what do you think? here is the link. Http://www.wire.com/threatlevel/2009/06/cfp-china/
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9 responses
@JuliaZhouchunjuan (31)
• China
5 Jun 09
Well, I am from China! I don't know the issues you are talking about!
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
5 Jun 09
Hi and thanks for the response, I belive the pervious cometer sumes it up. it is about the govement covering up the fact that it massicured it citizens who were peacfuly protesting against the govermnent at the time. 1989 was the year. the protest was seen around the world with one memorable photo of a chinesse man standing in frount of a coulum of army tanks trying to stop them from procending. No one still knows who he was or what his fate was.
@akifu622 (102)
• China
6 Jun 09
Hi,I am a Chinese and I do know this event happened 20 years ago.As government's measures for maintaining a stable situation as usual,many college BBS have been shut down temporarily for almost 2 weeks.And during that special day,when I tried to enter some foreign websites,I found I failed to get in.News,Videos are not able to see.However,most areas in China passed that day without any difference.
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
6 Jun 09
Hi and thanks for for your response. you are the second person from China to responed to my post. the first one did not knwo what this was about but it is good that you do.
@heathcliff (1415)
• United States
5 Jun 09
I don't think this was unexpected, but it is unfortunate. The Chinese leadership appeared to be making progress on discussions of freedom, but I suppose they fear organized protests would "shame" them and the internet is the best organizing tool ever. China has a way to go and the internet can be the window to greater freedom but the Chinese populace will probably need to be super patient.
Anyone on MyLot from China?
Anyone on MyLot from China?@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
5 Jun 09
Hi heathcliff and thanks for the response. very well said. I have had one rsponse from a Chinsese allredy but he or she done not have a clue.
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
5 Jun 09
Yes i read about it..such as in China they stop all internet activity seeing that this is the Tiananmen anniversary!!I found it really scandalous for a country that would be important in the world leading!!This kind of behaviour are really stupid and so it means that government know they are in fault on some topics and they don't accept any criticism or critical view from anybody..as on many other things as regards chinese government..this is possible yet in the 21st century?bah.
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
5 Jun 09
Hi and thanks for the response. Yes I agree that is not good behavior on the part of the Chinesese goverment. but unfourtaly it is still going on in the 21 century.
@tundeemma (894)
• South Africa
5 Jun 09
that is incredible, considering china as the most populated country in the world, it will definitely affected several sectors of the china's economy especially trade and commerce, government jobs, hospitals, health, hotels and tourism and several other sectors, i do hope China will bear with the blackout and i also hope the problem will not pass 24 hours
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
5 Jun 09
HI and thanks for the response. I belive that it was only social networking sites that were affected. this includes twitter too. the rest of the net for other servieces should have been unafected.
@bagnet (24)
• Philippines
5 Jun 09
if indeed the censorship is true - and i believe it is - the chinese government couldn't have made a worse decision. even if they can stop their citizens from discussing the tiananmen issue, it would only for a day. and what about us, people from other countries outside china? we too remember that event. it's not within the power of the chinese government to stop us from discussing it. the censorship only instigated more than muffled talks on tiananmen.
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
5 Jun 09
Hi and thanks for the response. Yes the whole thing is aobut censorship of the event. the goverment there just would like for it to go away.
@strawberrychocodahi (4818)
• Philippines
5 Jun 09
Hi there Scififan! Well any Chinese who wants to answer the question? hehe! anyway i think that their government will really not support anything against them so they have to do some drastic measures to spoil the plan.
China is another country who have issues about nuclear weapons and leadership aside from the countries Russia, North Korea and Iran. Which i think the US government is in meeting right now to discuss important matters regarding this.
China is the most populous country with billions of people living there.And to control their ability to get into the internet speaks clearly what this country can do to manipulate. This is just my own opinion.
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
5 Jun 09
Hi and thanks for the response. what the whole thing was about is the fact that the Chinese govermnt shut down the net for a day pretaind to censorship of the events of Tiananme square from 1989. This was a protest by university students who were protesting the goverment and the goverment chrused the protest with force.
there is a famosas pic of a chinese student tring to stop the army from comming in with tanks, he acculcy stands in front and blocks them as they try to go around them. no one knows who he is or what his fate is.
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
5 Jun 09
Of course this is censorship of the Chinese government. Maintenance is nonsense since firstly what would you want to maintenance? and secondly you probably can't fix it in a day and last but not least: It's indeed 20 years ago that students protested on the tiananmen square so the odds are against the government on this one.
it's not the first time btw...
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
5 Jun 09
Hi and thanks for the response. yes it all about censroing the event of the time. the goverment wants to shout donwn the net for a day and prevent the disscussion of what happened 20ys ago.
