“Mr. Hu Jintao, Tear Down the Great Firewall!” from China Digital Times on Vimeo.
China Digital Times reports on the twitter mobbing of a virtual wall set up on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the coming down of the Berlin Wall. The CDT report includes the above video, and begins:
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, KulturProjekte Berlin set up a virtual “Berlin Twitter Wall” where individuals could post their thoughts on the occasion through use of a Twitter hashtag #FOTW. The site’s introduction further invites participants to “let us know which walls still have to come down to make our world a better place!” Chinese netizens have made their voices heard on this last point, and Chinese comments bashing the Great Firewall and Internet censorship now dominate the site.














