21 Mar 05 Students in China protest the blocking of BBS
Students are protesting against restrictions to some of the popular Bulletin Board Systems in China. These bulletin boards hosted by Tsinghua University, Peking University and Nanjing University can only be accessed from inside the campus. People from outside who contributed actively are not able to participate any more.
Via China Digital Times and Tsalon blog.
Seems like a really silly decision to block the BBSs. Expect a lot of discussions happening on these BBSs to move to Blogsphere.
Also, some sort of tag activism is going on, people are blogging and flickring about this with the “smth” tag.
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