GOOGLE的博客怎么了，又被关了？

Last Tuesday, China took dramatic steps to quiet chatter on the web by blocking Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Hotmail, YouTube, and a wide range of social websites. This was done in advance of the 20th anniversary of the
Well, it looks like the Great Firewall of China is finally coming down, at least for now. According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese Internet users have been regaining access to most social networking websites. However, it seems that the bans have not yet been lifted for YouTube and Blogger, both subsidiaries of Google.

This doesn’t mean that China is giving up censorship of the web. Far from it, in fact. We reported just yesterday that China intends to force PC manufacturers to install a software that blocks specific websites that the Chinese government deems detrimental, though there’s still no word as to which websites will be blocked by this new software.

While the Great Firewall of China may be disappearing for the moment, the battle for