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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: June 11 \| June 10 \| June 09 \| previous days \| by month and year Monday, June 11, 2007 Authorities in China blocking Flickr images? Flickr users in China began reporting that access to images was blocked on June 7, and the ban appears to still be active as of June 11. A Flickr spokesperson says, "Our technical staff have looked into this and determined that it's not a technical issue from our end. Evidence suggests that our image servers are being blocked for many users in China." Here's the support forum discussion on Flickr, and The San Francisco Chronicle has a related story here. See also this CNET item, this Slashdot thread, and this Shanghaist item. posted by Xeni Jardin at 08:27:02 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: June 11, 2007 \| June 10, 2007 \| June 09, 2007 \| June 08, 2007 \| June 07, 2007 \| June 06, 2007 \| June 05, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: