YouTube being blocked in China

27 March 2009 | 9:46 - By Stefano Boscutti

Google says its YouTube video sharing website is being blocked in China.

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The company says it first noticed traffic from China had decreased dramatically a week ago. A day later, it had dropped to nearly zero. "We don’t know the reason for the block," a YouTube spokesman, Scott Rubin, said. "Our government relations people are trying to resolve it." Coincidentally (or not) on the day the blocking started the Chinese government said a video showing police beating a Tibetan protester to death was a fake concocted by supporters of the Dalai Lama.  Stopping the internet?  Yeah, good luck with that.  Latest police brutality?  Fake footage?  Click the second link to decide for yourself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/technology/internet/25youtube.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aoXvXcHmFg

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

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