China completely banned YouTube
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. “We do not know the reason for the blockage, and we’re working as quickly as possible to restore access to our users in China,” a spokesperson says. Google does believe the Chinese government knowingly cut the access. The spokesperson, however, questions why officials wouldn’t have just blocked a specific video, as they’ve done before, rather than nixing the entire site.
YouTube has been banned by other countries as well for allowing users to upload and share videos which foreign governments in Bangladesh, Thailand, Pakistan and Turkey found embarrassing to their political regimes. Google is working to restore access to the site for Chinese citizens. This is not the first instance in which Chinese users have been unable to access the video sharing site. China blocked YouTube during the Tibet riots in March 2008. During that time protesters were burning shops and vehicles in an attempt to protest the Han Chinese influence. The riots left 19 dead.
Source: PC World
Comments(67)
Lol… And what about metacafé???
Thats your misery chinese nerds.
democracy fails in all the countries mentioned above.
in Turkey youTube is also completely banned. and Turkey wants to be in European Union. Nice, huh?
people complain about U.S. all the time, but then 5h1t like this happens all over the world and the haters don't even care.
If you want to know the reason for the blackout read:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/200931764842672676.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/200932284233315306.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/200932524526428636.html
This is why I'm glad i live in a nordic country
I love the chinese people though, too bad the government is crappy… same applies to russia
Can you say……. Tibet?
Pretending there isn't a problem, and squashing everyone who thinks there is one, is the way to go if you're Chinese.
We can't have Youtube showing the world how Tibetans are treated by the Chinese government, so let's block the Tube.
China's Brutality Tibet
very hard brutality police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xbwHDTaIqU
no comment….
There is NO problem in Tibet. More ppl die every year in the US due to race wars.
Tibet is a very calm and peaceful place. However the Han influence is on the rise for sure. That is what happens in every big country having multiple language and culture.
"…..which foreign governments in Bangladesh, Thailand, Pakistan and Turkey found embarrassing to their political regimes."
That is because their regime IS embarrassing.
Politics, a job never needed, but alas it exists.
cool, maybe youtube will be faster
johney666
fair enough more people die in the US but when you compare the size of the US(300+ million) to tibet(2.85 million)thats no suprise,
how can you say there is NO problem in tibet?
yeah many parts of Tibet are calm and peaceful but there is a big problem with china and when you see videos like that it proves there is a problem.
Anyway iv never been there neither do I know anyone who has been but didn't really agree with you comments.
Does anyone know when fanboys is going to be available/
Fascists.
"What is it about the free world that pisses the rest of the world off?"
Google staff thoughts:
"We have the power to influence CHINA!!!"
…Sooooo….
"Anyone up for some Call of Duty?"
Hey Martin BTW YouTube is NOT banned in Pakistan FYI
Denmark (soon the whole europe) is banning thepiratebay – so yes youtube/google will be next.
and even if they ban piratebay so what? there will be a new site thats all. lol
so stupid
chinese people are smart enough to use a proxy to bypass the ban.
@13
More ppl die in NY in half a year than in Tibet in a whole year. What about that?
You can find even more shocking vids of racial violence in the US if you know how to search. What about the clash in the Anti-WTO protest on Seattle? What about the living skeletons in Africa who are suffering from AIDS and cannot eat for weeks at times? Tibetans are much well off compared to their atrocities.
It's obvious… CHINA IS FReAKIN' COMUNIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the US isn't that far off, for a supposedly free nation, the USA has a government that supports MPAA (and other taxpaying giants) more than it does citizens rights.
@17
Cool story bro
tibit! jesus, what's wrong with your white people, did the chinese use the tibiten people as slaves or build a wall to keep them out? if u want look at the guilty , maybe u should look at a mirror. do u know their their two different kind of tibiten people, one of them are people like dalai, which rules the place like king before the chinese get rid of him, the other kind is the lower class of tibit, which loves the chinese goverment, because the goverment make them on the top, well the rich people live their before become the lower class, the only reson the chinese did it's not because they want give power to the lower class, it's because the dalai kind want independent,they want get close to US,the french and the england. well of course for his personal gain.look at the map then you will know china will never give up that piece of crap land need other province to feed. south korea japan taiwan, u guys tried vienam, well if china give up tibit, it's like the ring, i guess we allknow who is the lord of the ring?
RE: gandalf March 25th, 2009 | 15:24
there is a very good reason to hate the U.S, china banning youtube is a minor thing compared to what the americans have done and are still doing to r4pe the earth and people on it
@15 Google does NOT have the power to influence any government. They and others may think they do but governments have the power to abolish and ban, unlike Google. If the Chinese government wants to ban YouTube it's their right to do so. We in the west may not like how they do things but we're not in China. Google's only interest in restoring service to China is revenue based, like all capitalist companies. "Do no evil"? Yeah right.
@12 Losing a sub continent of YouTube users won't necessarily improve the performance of the service. YouTube content is delivered using technology that serves up content from the nearest server to the user.
This is awesome. I can't wait for Obama to bring his national socialist fascist agenda in with the compulsorily voluntary domestic national security force as large and as well funded as the US military and police the web with the Fairness Doctrine. It's all so Orwellian and awesome. There's nothing like freedom in America!!
We have already seen that thanks to Senator Joseph McCarthy and very recently GWB.
I like China. They do things the old school way, and have succes. And at least they don't pretend to be "the land of the free".
Learn Chinese, because that's the language the world will be speaking in 25 years!
Tibet has as much right as any land mass to declare sovereignty. China will be damned if they let that happen. In regards to the post about race wars in the US, I can only assume you are talking about the citizens fighting with the invaders. If you want to call Mexican vs Sovereign US Citizen a race war, I think I'm fine with that. America's only evils have and continue to be not following the US constitution.
The fundamental principal of the US is(read as supposed to be) personal independence and responsibility. The farther any nation moves from that idea the closer to fascist/communist dictatorships they will be.
Deal with it, China continues to silence it's countrymen and prevent education.
First of all, i really doubt the riots (during the olympics) did left only 19 deads… sure is a 3 digit number at least….
And well, if youtube was banned from chinese networks, it's definitly not an accident…
In the end, you can blame China, but what about your government??
>>"Where politic start, honesty do stop"
Oh no – here comes all of the Chinese apologists. They seemingly have no problems with China restricting free speech and want to blame all the world's problems on the US. As usual, they are incapable of accepting blame for their own problems and want to point the finger elsewhere instead of examining their internal problems.
We have people being murdered and abused all over the world, but all of these totalitarian regimes are ignored by the same Chinese apologists, who really don't CARE about the "Earth being raped," because the Chinese are one of the biggest environmental abusers as well.
Do you notice how these same apologists refuse to criticize China (as if they were brainwashed or government stooges)? They turn a blind eye to its problems and have even found a way to try blaming the YouTube banning on the US! They just want to find fault with the US, who they hate, all the while caring nothing about the many problems around this planet.
They are hypocrites.
Also, the McCarthy hearings were over a a half century ago, and it paled in comparison to the Chinese Cultural Revolution which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Chinese, including many intellectuals. The US has never had a purge in the same manner that you saw in both Communist, authoritarian USSR and the People's Republic of China.
America doesn't have have to pretend to be the "Land of the free," which is why millions of immigrants want to move to the US every year, including many Chinese citizens.
Yes, America still has issues, but it works to fix them: it doesn't merely try to ignore in the same manner as the Chinese government. Or its seemingly blind and ignorant defenders.
it's simple. the Chinese government doesn't have a Guantánamo Bay into which it could detain operators of YouTube, who are supporting anti-Chinese propaganda backed by the USA government.
It may appear that USA is attacking China on the basis of political differences, but that is naive and superficial. The true cause is the Aryan encroachment on Chinese people that has been going on for hundreds of years. They have attempted all kinds of dirty tricks and there's no reason to believe they'll stop any time soon, or ever.
"The US has never had a purge in the same manner"??
Tell that to the real native americans, Vietnamis, Afghans and Irakis; US only did that in a larger global scale and still continueing to do so.
"the McCarthy hearings were over a a half century ago" but that does not reduce its evilness.
"Tibet has as much right as any land mass to declare sovereignty." Will you be able to say that if a US state demands freedom using the same logics? Tibet is a part of China.
Youtube/Google now know what it's like to get banned or just get a video remove for no reason.
Youtube is way to hard to filter. There so much stuff(crap) posted they don't want to spend the resources to check if there stuff against them.
Or maybe they just want their people to work and not waste their times.
It's because Chinese government is corrupt and doesn't want their citizens to ever catch drift of any "free thinking" nonsense.
Sucks to live there…
damn it, i just wrote my thesis on Chinese censorship, this would have been useful about a week ago. crazy old china though!
There you have it. This is why I avoid buying Chinese products as much as possible! Let's boycott these motherF***ing bastards.
I don't understand why don't US CANADA do the same thing???
Piracy is increasing and I think its time ISP starts blocking Pirate sites…
I liked the proposed idea of Internet 2 where people will not easily open up a site without the permission of ISP…
Do you think we can get YuoTube banned in the UK? I'm getting tired of all the bandwidth getting sucked up with everyone watching crappy video's on the site all day at my house.
For crying out loud the video quality isn't all that good anyway.
@ 41, what are you doing at a site that updates you on pirate releases then?
F U C K CHINKS AND F U C K PRESIDENT N I G G E R
Thank you. We don't need any chinks on the Internet that the US invented.
agree with you WorldCitizen
typical draconian chinese. and the chinese i know think china is great. yeah right!
@Johnny666
How can you possible compare U.S. racial violence with those happening in china?
You are an absolute ignorant fool.
Racial violence in the U.S. is NOT supported and implemented by the government. It is problem here MAINLY because we all have freedoms to choose. We can own guns if we want. The government can't tell us how to live out lives. As a result, many choose a path of destruction. That is one of the many bad sides of freedom. But freedom is still worth it nonetheless.
LOL @ 44 chinatard
That's right Al Gore invented it!
Go watch Gran Torino again if that's the best you do as far at slinging crap.
The last half of your handle is def right.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your apostle, Al Gore, didn't invent the Internet.
The internet at my work is routed through China, no youtube for me anymore =/
What I will do now ??? i guess i could start to work… o.0
That explains sudden speed increase on youtube…
Free and independent Tibet now! Heck, while we're at it, free and independent Paris, Lyon, Nice, Luxembourg, Brussel, Brest, Bern, London, Berlin, Rome, Dublin, Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow, Nottingham, Leeds, Milen, Naples, Catania, Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, Washington, New York, Florida, Queensland, South Wales, Tasmania, etc, etc.
If the above Freedom and Independence are not met. Easy to digest real news propagandas and true reality YouTube videos will be posted. For the sake of Freedom, anything is possible. Just let your imaginations run wild.
in Soviet Russia youtube bans you!
Think people are missing th epoint here.. political crap aside. fact is chinese gouverment are beating and killing people who are tied up and are no threat. basic disregard of human rights.
Doesnt matter if more people die due to racial conflicts in the US, it aint the US gourverment doing the killing is it.
maybe if you americans go ahead an drop another "FatMan" atom bomb on them, preferably on the chinese gourverments doorstep, give them a taste of there own medicine. if the people from tibet have no human rights, then neither should the chinese gourverment. saying that, i think any country with a gouverment who is compltly incapable of enforcing basic human rights shold be over run or gouverned by someone who is capable.
but hey, thays just my opinion.
Believe me it is the indisputable truth that non-threatening ordinary people have always been massacred.
With this in mind, let's annihilate with extreme prejudice all the chinese government, tibetan government, german government, iraqi government, french government, us government, english government and the likes.
The old needs to be destroyed so that the new can replace it. Change is certainly good so that more people can have their perfect human rights and happily be alive.
It is time for all the good american to come and do IT as you're told in the name of everlasting freedom.
Without China and the Chinese workforce (and also Mexico and India) the rest of the world would have to do some real work instead of wasting their time on YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc…
aint them china people post to be smart hacker computers. they prolly done been already hackin into they computer in china so they been using youtube now when it done been already had been banned so who cares. plus them china can move here in america cuz here we do like whatever we want. we got lotta website here come here move here we need more cuz they shut down panda express and china town express man i be lovin me some wong tom soup or whatever it is. yall done had that china food called poo poo platter man i eat chinese food 3 time a day.
So what Johney666 is saying is that commit atrocities, but in such a way that even the bodies are not found.
But what else can you expect from a commie
what's the big fuss, it's just youtube. there's a million other sites like it. plus, i prefer youporn or redtube. and if you don't like your government, move to a white man's land. i know foreigners flock here everyday because of their government. that's if some countries will allow you to flee. hey and isn't china the same country that has control on child limits per household? man that's some f'd up shiat.
"Racial violence in the U.S. is NOT supported and implemented by the government."
It was, until very recently, before MLK Jr started to raise voice. KKK is still secretly active in ALL states and don't tell me to believe that is possible without covert political support. And we all know what the G men did to the Muslims during Bush regime in the name of national security. 100s of ppl are still missing after they were arrested for just being Muslim and in some cases just for wearing turban even thoigh they were non-muslim.
@WorldCitizen: No other country has a more vocal and active govt. sponsored anti-china policy than the meddlesome US. So obviously any argument trying to defend China will eventually also end up showing faults of the US. At least China does not have an agency like CIA that is killing anyone anywhere across the globe who is a threat to "American Interest".
And the silly trick of saying "Oh, all aour faults were in the past, we have learned our lessons and we are better now" is ridiculous. 50 years later Chinese ppl will also be able to say the same thing.
People's Republic of China (Mainland China) 1949–present is a very newly formed country and like the history of every major country be it US, UK, France, Russia or India, China has also been going through some violent phases in the recent past. But the present administration is very open minded and is gradually opening up even more. It is
not a totalitarian draconian regime anymore as the US would like it to be.
With the burden of having world's largerst polulation to bare on its shoulder, it has shown remarkable porgress in such a short period of time and if this continues, very soon it will topple the US centric world order – and that is why US fears China most. Bcoz US knows that once that happens, there will be no way to reclaim its posoition as the whole world knows China is not a global bully like US is.
What's the big deal? YouTube is full of crap and a bit more crap.. Oh the good old days when Stage6 was up and running.
Down with the YouTube!
LOL at Jhoney666's comments.The chinese noodle d!ck doesn't even know how to spell his name XD
Go F!_!cK a dragon,Jhoneeey Wang Ching Chong.
Tibet rly has bad luck, no country of the world has ever accepted it as a country of it's own 'cause they fear china…europe and us buys too much from them and so they do as china wants..they will grow as badass as Nordkorea …D:
this article is FALSE.
We Chinese really hate our government.But they have army to prevent or stop any nationwide incident they don't like.
I don't know a lot about Tibet.But I do know most of Chinese people DO NOT have basic human rights and earn very little money.We can only afford ONE apartment in city by working hard for 30-40 years(apartment,not house).Can you imagine that?
Bribe and lacking of morality have become the "justice" of our society.
Although many of us suffer enough from this,we have no choice but suffering.
Ummm people…why is this a shock? The US censors EVERYTHING as well…they just let you believe you have access…visit other world news sites and then compare… its a JOKE. The US is not free.
There aint no block on YouTube in Thailand either, maybe few vidz discriminating the king had been blocked like in 2007 but otherwise… get you sh1t right before posting it…