Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to Apple's U.S. iTunes Music Store, following the release of the 20-song "Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace" collection Wednesday. Users in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen confirmed that since as early as Wednesday morning, Beijing time, they began receiving "unknown error" messages when they tried unsuccessfully to access the store. Although Apple does not operate an iTunes Store in China, users may download free content such as podcasts, and those with U.S. credit cards may buy content from the U.S. store.Although Amazon.com remains available in China, its pages for both the "Songs for Tibet" CD and download page fail to load, returning: "The connection was reset. The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading," the most common error message received for blocked sites.
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What the **** is with them, controlling their citizens, taking away their freedom.
Now I see why Taiwan split from China
I, myself am a half blood Taiwanese/Singaporean.
Hate it when ppl generalize every Asian as a Chinese ^^
/and like how nobody pays attention to the fact that Tibet is dying to be a hardcore feudal totalitarian theocracy again
//china's absolute separation of church and state is icky to Tibetan officials
However, in the end I have to side on the side of freedom and human rights here. Censorshiop and resitiction of information is always a bad thing.
Shame on China!
China's cultural norms are their own, and it's their right to progress at whatever pace they choose.
Our values aren't necessarily shared by others and it's high time to put an end to defining freedom by an American (more broadly, Western) yardstick.
I know for a fact that "Asian" opinion of Westerners isn't exactly stellar. More often than not it's pretty valid.
Before you know it, America will wind up like England.
/heck, between hip hop culture and redneck comedians, american english coming close to being as bad as british
Face it, global interventionism works.
BTW, the British Empire was not interested in expanding its liberal principals upon other nations, but rather resource capture. I mean, that whole American Revolution was for nothing, since they already had liberty, right?
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