China blocks access to Twitter,Hotmail,Flickr,YouTube and Bing ahead of the 20th anniversary of the protests in Tiananmen Square.

The move by the Chinese government appears to be aimed at preventing protests occurring. Leading dissidents have already been detained or ordered to leave Beijing.
“Twitter is a tool which can put all the sensitive things and sensitive guys together very quickly. That’s the very thing that the Chinese government doesn’t want to see in China,” blogger Michael Anti told the Guardian.
Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing IT worker, told The Sun that people in China were not surprised by the governments “draconian measures”. He said “The whole Twitter community in China has been exploding with it. It’s just part of life here. If anything surprises me, it’s that it took them so long.”
Just how far will government censorship of the internet go? It’s not only China of course, other countries including Australia have adopted similar measures to the Great Firewall of China to block access to certain websites, and the UAE blocks access to Flickr and, of all things, Skype, among other destinations.