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12:36 PM, Nov 12, 2009 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB

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On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a group called KulturProjekte Berlin set up a virtual wall on which Twitter users could post their thoughts. The project seems to have been overwhelmed by Chinese Twitter users who took the opportunity to protest their lack of freedom. One such message pleaded,

"Mr. Hu Jintao, Please Tear Down this Great Firewall!"

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