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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Teh Internets / International China Blocks YouTube

Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM

But they didn't block YouTube for hosting video of Chinese police beating handcuffed Tibetan monks in violation of international law. No, the problem is that the footage is obviously fake:

Google, the Internet company, said Tuesday that its YouTube video sharing Web site was being blocked in China.

The company said it did not know why the YouTube site was being blocked, but on Tuesday, a report in China’s official Xinhua News Agency accused supporters of the Dalai Lama of fabricating a video that appears to show Chinese police brutally beating Tibetans following riots last month in Lhasa, according to The Associated Press.

The agency did not identify the video, but based on its description, it appears to match a video, available on YouTube, that was released by the Tibetan government in exile recently. It purports to show police storming a monastery after riots in Lhasa last March, kicking and beating protesters. It includes graphical images of a protester’s wounds.

And here's the video:

We know it is fake because China wouldn't do these things. Likewise, China also wouldn't have done this, this, this, or this.

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Posted by Greg on March 24, 2009 at 1:56 PM

I want my MTV!

Posted by YouTube User on March 24, 2009 at 2:33 PM

Fucking Chinese. Somebody ought to tell them they can't just go around invading sovereign nations and expect to get away with it.

Oh, wait a minute. . . .

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 24, 2009 at 2:44 PM

China with the Tibetans, Israel with the Palestinians, Sudan with the Black tribes, America with the Native Peoples or Iraq, Spanish with the Inca, Britain with the Irish and Welsh and Scots, Mongols with the Russians. Gheezuz it never ends. Pick your time, pick your place and some one is beating the hell out of some one else.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on March 24, 2009 at 2:52 PM

Seriously, fuck China. Fuck 'em. Fuck anyone who trades with them or borrows money from them (hey, US gov't). Fuck anyone who does anything to validate their government. And fuck the US for not having the moral high ground either. Invading another country unprovoked is bad enough, but outright 60-year occupation and oppression of the local people for refusing to assimilate into the majority culture is so much worse.

Posted by DavidG on March 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM

@6, it's safe to assume that you don't use any Chinese produced goods then, right? Like, say a computer (or its components) that you use to comment on the interwebs? And that you would be OK with the US dollar collapsing as a result of a complete lack of liquidity in its sovereign debt?

Posted by john cocktosin on March 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM

One of the saddest things about this is that the some of the police are ethnic Tibetans. You can tell by their accents. In fact, at one point the Han supervisor says "好把" (hao ba), which translates roughly as "OK, good enough".

Han bosses telling their Tibetan thugs to stop beating other Tibetans. Really, really sad.

Posted by facet on March 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM

Very said.

Posted by kim in portland on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM

My nursing home blocks YouTube too. And Facebook. And MySpace. And "The Rules To Card Games" "Cabela's Sporting Goods" and "The Deluxe Bar & Grill." Luckily they haven't blocked the Slog. Yet.

Posted by elswinger on March 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM

Turkey has also banned YouTube because it contains videos that "insult Turkish identity."

Whatever that means.

Vtunnel.com is a good mirror site for getting around censorship, but I really wish that SLOG would provide a link for embedded video content so I can see what you are all laughing about.

Posted by Morgan on March 25, 2009 at 4:50 AM

The reason China wants to block the internet is
because the Chinese government is run by PUSSIES!!!

Dear Chinese Government,

EAT MY SHIT!!!!
Soft little men
who don't know a cunt from an asshole.
That's why they are all CUNTS AND ASSHOLES.

Please note that I differentiated between the
Chinese Govt and the Chinese people.
The average Chinese person (or Greek or Iranian or American)
is at the mercy of the prevailing thug/politician
who enforces the laws ONLY in order to sate the
bloodthirst of the criminals who operate their systems.

FUCK THEM...ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!
FOR ALL TIME!!!

Posted by harsh hillbilly on June 22, 2009 at 5:08 PM

Fuck china communist's party, the world won't live in peace, if the world won't kill or detroy the china communist's party, because china is ambitious, produce poison toys, food, goods, polution...etc....... all about communist of china, fuck, fuck china.

Posted by FearFree on July 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM