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China is continuing its fight against “social immoralities” by tightening up regulations for social networking. Twitter and Facebook both took hits as the Chinese government cracked down on internet messaging and communications.  Part of the stringent rulings are a result of the anniversary of the Tianamen Square riots that happened twenty years ago.  The riots were a result of the treatment of Tibetans and the anniversary is a time for added security to be instilled throughout the area.

Another anniversary China is cautioning is the 60^th anniversary of communist rule that marks Beijing’s political state.  In the nation, legislators are wary that social networking will cause uprisings of political anarchy.  A spokesperson for Digu, a Chinese micro-blogging website, stated, “It’s a sensitive period, so we are not in a rush to re-open it.” She was speaking of the website Digu that is down for maintenance for the next few weeks. She also noted the government’s demand that the website “police sensitive materials” and the company’s concern over censoring their questionable content.

China is the largest group of internet users and is estimating that over 290 million people are searching the web. For this reason, the country has instilled the most stringent methods of censoring and monitoring content. Blogs and social networking websites seem to be the target of the crack down. It seems that any portal that is by nature a method of communicating free speech is in jeopardy. The government is defending its moves, citing that “pornography, online gambling and websites harmful to society” are its main concern. Although critics are pointing to the government as looking for a reason to police political messages that are not congruent to theirs.

A testament to the nation’s strict rules were felt a few months ago when popular video website YouTube.com was blocked.  The reason given by leaders was that it promoted and shared the message of Chinese security forces mishandling Tibetans. The same thing happened with Twitter and Flickr in a few short months after YouTube.com’s blocking. Xiao Qiang, director of Berkeley China Internet Project at UIC, stated “Over the last few months in particular, news is being circulated through those Twitter-like sites or Facebook-like sites and instantly disseminated on a large scale. This makes it very hard for censors to block the news from circulating…so they have stopped all these sites while they figure out what to do.”