internet - Protest hit blogoshpere as BBS's restrict access

Students and other users of the popular bulletin boards started protests as access to this most used internet tools was restricted over the past week. Bulletin boards China-wide started in introduce different, but very restrictive measure to limit access by users from outside the universities. The BBS's allowed people to participate in debate anonymously and that explains part of their influence.
Bulletin boards in Beijing, Nanjing and Guangdong restricted the access to certain IP-addresses, started to require ID-cards or plainly cited 'technical problems' to take BBS's out of the air.
BBS's started to take down protest against the measure, but protest came out in different ways. Emails from universities suggest students havve been actively been protesting.