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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[Adolf Hitroll]

Shut the fuck up you idiot: if you think Americans are better than the chinese with their corrutped oligarchic system, then you need to buy yourself a clue: the fact is you're no freer than even the sorriest Chink.

Fuck Obama and his what he means with change (i.e.: pennies to the people, notes and gold to themselves).

Fuck America, its CIA and its corporations.

Fuck Slashdot for keeping their visitors hypnotized by all that made-in-China shite while at the same time remaining unconscious of what the world they though the geek (whatever this label means to these sorry fucks) shall inherit is indeed becoming.

I actually despise you.

Typical for an American to think...

[denzacar]

...that watching a sitcom will solve anything. Even one as popular as Friends.

An really... wasn't Joey more popular than Chandler?