http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/YouTube-Banned-in-China-Google.html I heard the ban was now lifted, but I'm not sure if it is.
its only because China knows it true of what they have done... there's no special human rights law there so people with authority can do what the heck they like there they only banned youtube just so they don't get a bad name for the g20 summit or the whole meeting of Wo Gum Tou and Obama...
They can't stop the inevitable from happening, I think they know that too well. What they do is delaying a revolution and hoping to adapt to the new China that will come after a new revolution.
i think they want to be communist and never be democratic... but that day will come if i become president hahahaa *jokes*
Oh but you're wrong. China has not only learned; it has learned very well. It completely understands that full and unfettered access to unfiltered information is dangerous to the Chinese Communist Party and it's continued existence. That's why censorship is so pervasive in China. For example, the majority of Chinese citizens have no idea of what happened in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, when People's Liberation Army troops opened fire and kill thousands of Chinese. The PRC censorship apparatus is one of the most severe and effective in the world. Western pundits that had predicted the internet would open up and reveal China for the repressive regime that it is made a sad miscalculation. The PRC has co-opted companies like Cisco and Yahoo to not only tailor their products to support Chinese repression, but to actively spy on Chinese people as well for the PRC government. Sad irony isn't it? -censored
Thats ridiculous. Also I know that are a lot of other sites banned where people can easily share their opinion, like blogger.
Forgive me, but I think you're not seeing the overall picture. How many hits can a blogger site take? Or put it this way, what would happen if the same number of people from China who normally visit YouTube were to suddenly go to one blogger site? You guessed it, the system would crash and the blogger site will be so overwhelmed that nothing ever gets in or out. The only servers that can consistently handle that sort of traffic is a multimillion dollar server system like YouTube's. Moreover, YT has name and people are used to it. If you want a video to go viral, what would you do, post it to a blog or to YT? At any rate, by denying Chinese citizens access to YT, what the PRC has done is effectively limited the exposure to foreign news or information sources that the government could not otherwise control. Many claim it was the Tibetan video that the PRC government was trying to block, but IMHO, that was one of many reasons. Further, blocking YT also has the effect of limiting the number of unfiltered videos that come out of China. People may post something anonymously via an internet cafe to YT that the PRC government may not wish for the outside world to see (riots, protests, etc). So, in the final analysis, I think YT is done in China; I don't think its ever coming back as the PRC gov cannot control it fully, so the best they can do is cut off access.
