Foursquare blocked in China
According to Techblog86,
a website that covers technology news in China, there has
been a dramatic increase in the number of people using the Foursquare
service to ‘visit’ Tiananmen Square. The blog has a screenshot of a user’s
Foursquare app on the iPhone, which shows hundreds of people checking in at
the site of the massacre.
It remains unclear whether the blocking of Foursquare in China is a permanent
or temporary move by the authorities. It already uses its “Great
Firewall” to filter content that it deems unsuitable for Chinese
citizens, such as websites about Tibet, the religious group Falun Gong or
the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which hundreds of student protestors were
crushed by government tanks. Access to Google
and Facebook
is also blocked in China.