China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos 343
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."
psiphon (Score:3, Informative)
http://psiphon.civisec.org/ [civisec.org]
Unimpressed (Score:2, Informative)
Re:China = Muslim? (Score:0, Informative)
Re:Why only Tibet? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:urgh (Score:3, Informative)
Re:any chinese comments? (Score:4, Informative)
Someone already did [blogs.com]:
The above info, plus a great deal of other material well worth spending the time to read, was aggregated [boingboing.net] by boingboing's Xeni Jardin, who since this situation has erupted in Tibet has kept a close eye on the whole thing and provided some very good info like the above mentioned post.
Re:craziness (Score:3, Informative)
Anyway, did my modding there, now I have to wait.
Re:How long... (Score:3, Informative)
the news on it is not up-to-date like here..and commentors also are fewer than here. that's why it not well known to many of my folks.
Re:Is blocking even necessary? (Score:4, Informative)
you probably talked to Han Chinese (Score:4, Informative)
As you might expect, you get different views on this issue if you talk to Han vs. non-Han Chinese citizens.
Not accurate.... (Score:2, Informative)
In fact, YouTube had been banned even before Sunday in China. Since the Icelandic singer Björk's gave her live performance in Shanghai lastweek, singing a song "Declaring Independence" with the cry "Tibet! Tibe!", the trouble with YouTube began.
I haven't checked the TFA from Wired though. It seemed to be banned also. (I'm here in China.)
Re:Why only Tibet? (Score:3, Informative)
What is wrong with that? Are you saying it's not reasonable for someone to defend themselves?
And interestingly, he apparently wants to kill off retarded children:
Of course, abortion, from a Buddhist viewpoint, is an act of killing and is negative, generally speaking. But it depends on the circumstances. If the unborn child will be retarded or if the birth will create serious problems for the parent, these are cases where there can be an exception. I think abortion should be approved or disapproved according to each circumstance. - The Dalai Lama, to the New York Times.
That's not killing off retarded children, that's potentially aborting fetuses that would grow up to be retarded. That's something that a lot of reasonable people would do. You are deliberately misrepresenting what he said.
Re:urgh (Score:3, Informative)