Google+ is only a couple of days old, but its accessibility is already a hot media topic. After the beta release on June 29th, news began circulating around Twitter that the site was already blocked. Ren Media, a Chinese marketing firm, was the first to report on the outage, citing local reports and a monitoring […]
Earlier last week, major media sources reported that China blocked popular professional networking site LinkedIn in the country. Bloggers and sources from China report that the ban was quickly lifted after only a day. Herdict received one inaccessibility report concerning the site on February 27 from Henan province. Popular opinion suggests that the government shut […]
Just last week, the UAE announced that it would no longer block popular social networking and photo-sharing site Flickr after years of banning its access. According to the Associated Press, Flickr Groups, a site feature that encourages people to pool their photos, comment on others’ works, and build virtual communities, remains blocked by the Telecommunications […]
