PhD Blog (dot) Net » censorship http://phdblog.net Andy Coverdale PhD Blog: Student Learning, Higher Education and the Social Web Wed, 16 May 2012 18:06:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Mr. Hu Jintao, Tear Down the Great Firewall! http://phdblog.net/mr-hu-jintao-tear-down-the-great-firewall/ http://phdblog.net/mr-hu-jintao-tear-down-the-great-firewall/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:28:29 +0000 Andy Coverdale http://phdblog.net/?p=522 SmartMobs describes a report from the China Digital Times on the twitter mobbing of a virtual wall set up by KulturProjekte to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using the twitter hashtag #FOTW, Chinese ‘netizens’ have bombarded the site with calls to end State censorship of the Web.
Which I wonder (should the latter happen) would have the greatest historical significance; the fall of the Beriln wall or that of the Great Firewall of China?

SmartMobs describes a report from the China Digital Times on the twitter mobbing of a virtual wall set up by KulturProjekte to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using the twitter hashtag #FOTW, Chinese ‘netizens’ have bombarded the site with calls to end State censorship of the Web.

Which I wonder (should the latter happen) would have the greater historical significance; the fall of the Beriln Wall or that of the Great Firewall of China?

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