Thursday, February 17, 2011

Block China Microblog Search for Hillary Clinton by www.alexa-com.co.cc
BEIJING - A popular microblogging China blocked the search for the senator and former first lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton, following his speech that appealed to a number of countries to end censorship on the Internet.

Sina, Micro-blogging from China that resembles Twitter, reportedly blocks the search effort against Hillary Clinton, on Thursday (02/17/2011).

"As the laws, regulations and policies, the search results will not be displayed," the statement microblogging site was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Earlier this week, Clinton said countries like China may experience economic losses and long-term social unrest that could result in the community, if the sensors in the internet is still running.

China currently has the world's largest Internet population, ie 457 million users.  However, the State Bamboo Curtain set a strict censorship of Internet content that is sensitive.  In fact, several times the total block a site.

Facebook and Twitter blocked since 2009, after the commotion of ethnic Chinese in the western region, Xinjiang.

Sina itself is a microblogging service like Twitter that has now reached more than 50 million users.  In 2011, the total expected Sina users reached 100 million.

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