Articles Archive for 3 August 2009
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Just returned from an extended trip to NY and HK. I’ve come back to a China without Twitter and Facebook. If Beijing is following the YouTube playbook then we might not see them again for a while.
Let’s call it ‘platform blocking’. Beijing isn’t banning individual sites or even servers anymore – it’s taking complete networks offline. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter aren’t just time-wasters and peep shows – they are the future of communication, media and collaboration tools of the future. In the short term, these blockages are inconvenient and annoying …
