China Blocks YouTube, Again

cryfreedomlove brings news that YouTube has once again been blocked in China. The Google-owned video site was censored in China last year because of videos about the protests in Tibet, and that may be the impetus behind this latest restriction. According to a New York Times report, "'The instant speculation is that YouTube is being blocked because the Tibetan government in exile released a particular video,' said Xiao Qiang, adjunct professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley... Mr. Xiao said that the blocking of YouTube fit with what appeared to be an effort by China to step up its censorship of the Internet in recent months. Mr. Xiao said he was not surprised that YouTube was a target. It also hosts videos about the Tiananmen Square protests and many other subjects that Chinese authorities find objectionable."

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[interested pyro]

methinks that China needs to be brought out of the stone age like MAtthew Perry did many years ago....

The real story

[Ukab the Great]

Secret footage of Mao Tse-Tung wearing a really comfy pair of Italian loafers. The Tibet stuff is a cover story.

Re:What should Google do?

[FredFredrickson]

Youtube2.com, a full mirror of regular Youtube. Just keep making new ones until China gives up.

Re:China have censored part of the internet?

[Jurily]

I'll alert the presses!!!!!

Tell me, Mr. Anderson... what good is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?