China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos

Screaming Cactus writes "Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the site. 'Chinese leaders encourage Internet use for education and business but use online filters to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic. Foreign Web sites run by news organizations and human rights groups are regularly blocked if they carry sensitive information. Operators of China-based online bulletin boards are required to monitor their content and enforce censorship.' The blocking added to the communist government's efforts to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted Friday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, against Chinese rule."

Comments

Re:Is blocking even necessary?

[tabrnaker]

Didn't you know that exportation of professionals is part of china's plan to dominate the world?

First, make other countries feeble minded by poisoning their youth and feeding their vices. Next, emigrate professionals to increase the number of chinese in decision making power in other countries.

It's a slow process, but Mao's dream is coming true. Anybody who has read and understood Mao, should be very scared as to how close to the plan the chinese are sticking, and the amazing results they are getting from sticking to their plan.

Think Global, Act Locally

[xenocide2]

Why not start with petitioning the US government to return Texas to Mexico?

the differences

[hackingbear]

Taiwan is nothing like the PRC. In the PRC, corruption permeates to even the most petty of bureaucrats, who must be bribed for simple things like marriage licenses and being allowed to continue to farm your own meager plot of land. The difference is that: in China, corruption is wide spread but illegal and can carry stiff punishment; whereas in Taiwan *and* in the US, corruption is not wide spread but it is mostly legal and little punishment, because it has been renamed to political contribution etc.