YouTube Partially Unblocked In China 47
hackingbear writes "After China unblocked certain sensitive keywords in search engine baidu.com last week, YouTube is now partially, quietly unblocked. Users inside China can, without bypassing the Great Firewall, visit the site, search for sensitive keywords, and see uncensored results and comments. The videos themselves, including those not related to politics, remain blocked, however. Given that the Chinese government likes to make major changes in gradual, experimental steps, it is unclear what this round of Internet loosening will lead to eventually. At the meantime, many netizens in the country express their welcome of the moves as a good start through microblogging."
Not for me. (Score:5, Informative)
Well, I can't reach it from my town at all. I don't get a 'connection terminated' message anymore, but it never loads.
Not (Score:4, Informative)
I am in Beijing. YouTube is not accessible from here, using http or https. A bad prank or a slip up of the Great Firewall network engineers which has probably been patched up by now.
Re:Confirmed, not unblocked (Score:5, Informative)
It is currently still blocked (posting from Beijing).
The censorship policy in China is pretty much a local affair. My experience is that censorship in Beijing is stricter than in Shanghai. Censorship tends to be even looser away from the big cities. So when you see these announcements about "site xyz is unblocked in China", it is usually really just a change in one locality.
Re:Not for me. (Score:3, Informative)
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.2.1 0.0% 14 1.1 1.7 1.0 4.1 0.9
2. x.x.x.x 0.0% 14 3.7 23.8 2.8 258.6 67.7
3. x.x.x.x 0.0% 14 5.7 4.3 2.4 10.5 2.1
4. x.x.x.x 0.0% 14 4.2 16.9 4.2 101.8 27.9
5. 61.152.86.58 0.0% 14 5.7 5.8 4.7 7.7 0.8
6. ???
(sorry for obfuscating the IPs and posting anonymously, but it's forbidden to talk about censorship, and I don't want to get in trouble as I do all of my earnings using Internet