Flickr censored by China?
Jun 10th, 2007 by anonymous
The relatively unimportant photo sharing website Flickr is now supposedly partly censored when viewed by people from The Middle Kingdom. Flickr story regarding this on their “Help / Forum” is:
Update from Flickr staff (10:00 PDT, June 7th) : It seems that access to our image servers is being blocked for users in much of China. Our technical staff has looked into this at depth and determined this is not a technical issue from our end. We will keep an eye on the situation and update if we get any developments.
Update from Flickr staff [2] (01:00 PDT, June 8th) : We are checking periodically to see if the block is still in place, but haven’t detected any change. We hope that this is a temporary issue and we currently believe that it will be. In the meantime, we are investigating our alternatives. Thank’s for your patience,
Xiamen protest censorship indicated?
Flickr is mostly used by the almost completely mindcontrolled drone-like slaves within the NATO alliance to share pictures of their mostly dumb-as-cows dressed-up-as-dicated-by-television friends and loved ones. Internet rumors indicate that numerous more interesting pictures than usual have been uploaded to Flickr the last few days:
There were huge demonstrations against the building of a chemical plant in Xiamen, China the whole week after construction workers decided to stop working on May 30th. Rumors indicate that many pictures from these protest were uploaded to Flickr and other sites on the Internet. The Flickr-claimed censorship of images to users visiting from China just happened to start shortly after these signifficant demonstrations in Xiamen.
The rumors of censorship are likely true. This is indicated by the heavily-censored crinically-lying western “free” press agency “The Associated Press” claims that the protests were not in the streets by done by text messages. Thus; China already having enlisted the fascist western “news outlets” in their propaganda may compell them to take serious measures to ensure that the truth is heavily supressed.
Tor solution still working
It’s still possile to make connections from China to the whole Tor-network. Thus; it’s still possible to make uncensored connections to Flickr using a Tor-client - which is available from tor.eff.org & tor.linuxreviews.org. Tor is mainly used by people within the NATO alliance to avoid government torture for reading or writing the wrong thing on the Internet, but it also works great to view partially censored sites such as Flickr claims to be when visiting from China right now.
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