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China Blocks YouTube, Again

Posted by Soulskill on from the well-played-well-played dept.

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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  1. China have censored part of the internet? by Hasney · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll alert the presses!!!!!

  2. Tiananmen Square by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't believe this isn't talked about more. I can't believe it didn't come up before they decided to let them host the Olympics.

    You guys know they put a bunch of farm boys into tanks and had them roll into Tiananmen Square and start shooting students, right? Shooting from their tanks onto balconies.

    What do you think happened to that guy standing in front of the tank (you know the picture)? You think he's still alive? Can you imagine the courage it took to do that?

    And the world rewarded these murderers with the Olympic Games.

  3. Re:Great firewall of... wtf? by hengdi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It IS transparent to the population of China. I live here, and its just not an issue even with the net-addicted teenagers I teach every day. They all use Chinese video sites, and the only people annoyed by this are us westerners.

    Think of it this way: how many Chinese language sites do you go to every day? Would you notice if a few got shut down? That, my friends, is the reality of this to the average Chinese person.

    Now, if they shut down WOW, we'd have a revolution today!