Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

China blocks twitter and other social networks.

Users in China tried to access twitter, Flicker and Bing, but realized these sites got blocked by China's government. Before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre. This is because networks like twitter allow it's users freedom of speech, apparently that goes against the interest of China's government.


More information here.
If you want to know more about the Tiananmen massacre click here.

Monday, May 18, 2009

China Theme Sex Park Demolished

Chongqing officials in China closed the first sex theme park named Love Land, which was scheduled to open in October, because they found it vulgar and misleading, this is because sex is still taboo in that country, the park was intended to feature giant genitalia, exhibition of naked human sculptures, giving people more knowledge about sex and therefore improving their sex lives.

More on this article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8054893.stm