It was bad enough that they blocked Youtube and millions were forced to miss out on my poorly put together video clips. Now apparently the Chinese government has decided to block Facebook and Twitter access, along with most Google communication services after rioting in the Xinjiang Province last weekend.
So you might ask, how does this affect you Nick? And I'd tell you that my parents and younger siblings are living in China currently, we use Facebook as pretty much our only means of contact. Fortunately they live around 4,200km from where the violence occurred. Still it's very worrying that the Chinese government will cut off international communications whenever the media paint them in a poor light.
I don't really want to go into the politics or motives around the violence but pretty simply it was a clash between two different races and religions, one being a Muslim minority that was protesting (albeit peacefully) and the other being the Han Chinese majority attempting to quell the unrest (in this case not peacefully).
Hopefully this ban ends soon otherwise I'll have to hope proxies continue to keep working.
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