China blocks access to Blogger, Twitter...

...as the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest (Thursday) approaches. "Beijing turned up the volume on the "Great Firewall of China" Tuesday, blocking nearly a dozen Western Web sites and search engines.
Thursday is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and as a foretaste, Chinese users were denied access to Blogger, Flickr, Twitter, Livejournal, Tumblr, the Huffington Post and Microsoft's Live.com, Hotmail, its MSN Space blog tool and its new search engine Bing," and You Tube. More info here.

I guess mainland Chinese bloggers will not be able to see my post about this guy.

And they will probably also miss my post about Penn and Teller and the Chinese Bill of Rights.

edited to add: Left Coast Rebel posted a nice summary of the events surrounding the Tiananmen Massacre. It is imperative that we understand history, so that we will not have to relive it.

My wish is for all people to live with the blessings of peace and freedom from oppression.

I love this guy

Do you remember the student pro-democracy protests in 1989 in China's Tian An Men Square? Do you remember how the Chinese government fired on the students killing thousands? The picture of this one brave man stays with me in my heart. He loved his country so much. Unarmed, he stood in front of rolling tanks. I wonder what ever happened to him. Was he killed? Sent to a re-education camp?

I sure hope our American Government can find a way to hang on to the ideals of freedom and democracy. Government power should be limited. The government strong enough to save you is strong enough to enslave you.