Google said Tuesday that its YouTube video-sharing Web site had been blocked in China.Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a report by the official Xinhua news agency of China on Tuesday said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video that appeared to show Chinese police officers brutally beating Tibetans after riots last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.
http://nytimes.com/2009/03/25/technology/internet/25youtube.html
http://iht.com/articles/2009/03/25/technology/25youtube.phpChina blocks YouTube
China has blocked the video-sharing network YouTube after Beijing denounced footage appearing to show security forces beating Tibetans in Lhasa last year as “a lie”.The authorities have blocked the service on previous occasions and, more frequently, have prevented access to specific videos.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/25/china-blocks-youtubeChina appears to block YouTube
China is not afraid of the Internet, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, even as access to the popular video sharing site YouTube appeared to be blocked. YouTube has unavailable for users in China, which filters the Internet for content critical of Communist Party rule, since late on Monday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKTRE52N1W220090324
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-38673620090324YouTube Says China Blocks Site
Access to GoogleInc.’s YouTube service was blocked by Chinese authorities, as the video-sharing site continues to wrestle with governments offended by some of its content.A YouTube spokesman said as of Tuesday evening it hadn’t been contacted by the Chinese government and was working to restore the service, which had been disrupted for more than 24 hours.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123791575627627223.htmlChina blocks YouTube as internet crackdown spreads
The online video website YouTube has been blocked in China for more than a day, the company said.YouTube, owned by Google, first noticed a slow down in its traffic from China on Monday March 23 and is now unavailable across the country, a spokesman said.A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said he did not know about the move, according to Reuters.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5971257.eceChina ‘blocks YouTube video site’
China is reported to have blocked the YouTube video-sharing website because it has been carrying video of soldiers beating monks and other Tibetans.The date and location of the footage, posted by a Tibetan exile group, cannot be ascertained.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7961069.stmChina Blocks Access to YouTube — But Why?
China appears to be blocking all access to YouTube. Now, why in the world would it do something like that? I’ve got some theories.First, though, the facts: YouTube use from China started dropping off the map sometime Monday night, with traffic nearly reaching a standstill by Tuesday morning. Google (which owns YouTube) has confirmed the apparent ban, though its staff is not certain of the cause.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161909/.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032409-china-blocks-access-to-youtube.htmlReport: YouTube blocked in China
Chinese authorities have blocked access to YouTube, according to a story posted today on The Wall Street Journal’s Web site.The story said that YouTube confirmed that the site was blocked in the country, but did not know what caused the outage. The story also quotes a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry who said at a press conference today that the government has “taken up management of the network according to the laws.”
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130383
http://computerworld.com.au/article/296795/
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