YouTube banned in China again

[Maximus()]

Among the censorship of search engines and tapping on a voice call through Skype, China continues to restrict the freedom of information, emphasizing its distance from the Internet. The network also Youtube, for the umpteenth time.

Recently, access to video sharing site YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, was blocked for all users living in China. The government has organized a system that allows you to filter the comments and criticism of the communist party and which was intensified in March, when falls the anniversary of the Tibetan protests against Chinese government in 1989. In this context, socio-political, YouTube would have allowed the circulation of a video broadcast by the exiled Tibetans, showing hundreds of Chinese soldiers attacking a Tibetan monastery. Fear of the Internet? Certainly not!

Qin Gang, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry said: "Many people have the false impression that the Chinese government Internet theme. In reality it is exactly the opposite." Since January, many hundreds of Internet sites administered by Chinese dissidents have been blocked. YouTube was previously blocked in Turkey following the circulation of a video against Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish republic and national hero, and in Thailand for a video ironic against the monarch, dressed as a clown.

[SimonBoss]

This is ridiculous. Banning illegal sites is one thing..but banning GOOGLE and YouTube so that local websites can flourish is way off the mark. A day will come when the people will be seeing only local content and totally cutoff from the world

[Dammit]

China people should check out Youku.com, not Youtube - it is the fastest growing online video website in China. The video download speed of Youku in China is much better than Youtube.