The Times : China blocks YouTube over Tibet protests
By Andrew Redfern @ 17th March 2008 4:10 pm
The Times, London : China has closed down access to several of the world’s most popular websites in an apparent attempt to censor international coverage of the violence that is unfolding in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. YouTube, the video-sharing website which has become a home to amateur footage of news events, has been blocked to Chinese users since Saturday, and there are also reports that the news pages of Yahoo!, the internet portal, have been made inaccessible.
In addition, the entire Guardian website has been closed down as of today, and other sites – including Times Online – have had access to their coverage of recent events in Tibet severely restricted.
Popular sites which assimilate news from different sources – such as Google News – have been subject to what is known as ‘keyword filtering’, where a Chinese internet user attempting to load a page which contains words such as ‘Tibet’ or ‘Dalai Lama’ will see the site stall.
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