China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos

[saikira]

China is apparently blocking YouTube over videos covering the recent protests in Tibet.

YouTube is generally easily available in China, which has about 210 million Internet users. But access to YouTube in China was denied on Sunday after footage of recent deadly protests in Tibet appeared on the video posting site.

Attempts to call up the site met with a blank screen and an error message saying the web page could not be displayed.

The access problems came after video clips began appearing on the site showing violent unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa that triggered a virtual lockdown of the city by security forces.

China, which strictly controls access to information, has kept a tight lid on news out of Lhasa, with foreign journalists being denied access and foreign tourists ordered out of the city.

The only footage broadcast by state-run media so far has been a short clip showing Tibetan rioters in the city destroying Chinese shops, but nothing has been released on the resulting crackdown by police.

China's official death count puts the toll at 10.



Access to popular Chinese-language video posts such as tudou.com were operational on Sunday but a search for videos of the Tibet violence came back with no results.

Amid China's information clampdown, the Internet has provided a rare window into the situation, with amateur video and pictures popping up on websites around the world.

Source: Foxnews, Timesofindia

[DeadlyNightshade]

i don't get why china is hushing up stuff like this. it's still news. people already know some of the "bad" stuff of china and by hushing it up further, it's only gonna make people more curious. to be honest, china cares too much about saving face. it doesn't think properly about the fact that keeping certain things quiet would make them be seen in an even more negative way.

[blackrabbit2999]

anybody living in china now to confirm this?

[DEPTHSING]

this behavior is similar to that of thailand when thye block Utube over the videos insulting the thai king. well, in my opinion, if they think they did no wrong over tibet, then why hush up the videos?

[obezyanka88]

the fact is that over the past few decades the chinese have have become more open to the fact that their culture is influenced by outside sources. cover ups arent the way to stop these protests. it seems that the political instability will be an issue for years to come.