Tomorrow’s the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Right now Chinese Web surfers can’t access Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and many more social networking sites. (Plus Microsoft’s Hotmail and Bing search engine. Go figure.) Coincidence? Nah. It’s the Great Firewall of China, doing what it does best.

Think back to May 1990, the 20th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Was the NY Times shut down for the day? Heck no. Did they publish a story about Kent State? Heck yeah.

Despite its flaws and faults, God bless free and independent media.

P.S. The Times has an interesting story today about the 4 photographers who got the shot of the Tiananmen Tank Man.

Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
on June 03, 2009 - 12:36 pm

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