YouTube Access Blocked in China after Tibet Clips Appear
AFP reports on Youtube being blocked in China for broadcasting Lhasa riots:
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…
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.
See also ReConversation blogs on Tibet… is discussion possible?
For those living in the West who didn’t realize that there’s little sympathy for Tibet independence among ethnic Chinese in the PRC, this blog post on Global Voices will be a shocker. John Kennedy has translated chatter from Chinese blogs and chatrooms that generally runs along the lines of: those ungrateful minorities, we give them modern conveniences and look how they thank us… where have we heard this before? Reuters has a roundup on the Washington Post that begins: “a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and nationalism directed against Tibetans and the West.”
Origin: , AFP
