Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Facebook off to a jerky start in China...

Following Facebook’s recent launch of a Chinese-language version for mainland China, users in some parts of Beijing are finding the site’s homepage inaccessible.

Technical glitch? Government crackdown? As always with the Web in China, it’s very hard to say. Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. China’s censors don’t discuss which sites they target – or, for that matter, the fact that they block sites at all. And enforcement often varies between regions and even between Internet service providers. Indeed, users in at least some other parts of the country were able to access Facebook Tuesday, even as some in Beijing couldn’t. More...

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And this: The Facebook Anthem! Ha! Ha! Ha!

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