As the 20th aniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is approaching the unjustifiable actions of the Chinese Government are on the rise too. A lot of Daily Pandora readers from China have contacted me and confirmed that some of the most popular social media sites have been inaccessible since June 4th.

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Most of the sites are powerful mass-communication tools and the Communist Chinese government doesn’t want the history to repeat in which groups of students and intellectuals led demonstartions against the oppressive Chinese rule and which led to the collapse of a number of communist governements around the world.

The list is surprising as on of the services blocked (Bing.com) was not even officially launched! And besides its just another search engine – like Google!

The Chinese government doesn’t publish the list of censored websites but thats not very difficult if you want to really find out. Some of the popular services that our Chinese readers might miss for a prolonged times are Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, Bing.com, Hotmail, Microsoft ’s Live Services and even some online forums and colleges and University affiliated communities.

In these modern times when China has become a hub for international business taking such steps will only retaliate people from doing business with China and may even hinder China’s chances against ts competitors.

This is not the first time the Chinese government has blocked access to social media sites. China blocked access to YouTube this past March. History repeats itself.

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