Comments on: China: Youtube Blocked

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:02:38 +0000

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By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:43:59 +0000

Remember, China tightly censors its own citizens’ knowledges about the outside world. It’s NOT a free country!
China’s search engines already censor out any search results on Tianmen Square, Free Tibet, Falun Gong and Taiwan Indpendence.
Youtube is just the latest vicitim by China’s censorship program. Communism does nobody good!!!

By: yang

yang — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:31:08 +0000

maybe no one knows the exact reason why sites are blocked, and the only thing i can do is wishing…

By: China Proxy

China Proxy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:32:28 +0000

To get around China’s blocking of websites, use either Tor or download the Gladder extension for firefox. A google search on either Tor or Gladder will get you what you want.

I’ve lived in China for years, and there is no website I can’t visit.

By: mahathir_fan

mahathir_fan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:52:58 +0000

John,

The most important thing to Tibet right now is not Youtube but a scientific education.

As you all know, I am a supporter of free speech and anti-censorship. In general, I am against this censorship.

However, Tibetans are simply too backward and superstitious. They believe in things like reincarnation. Some even do this religious prayer where they walk few steps, kneel down and pray, walk few steps and kneel down and pray.

I would say that the most important thing for Tibet right now is not Youtube.

Rather, it is education, scientific education to educate Tibetans so that they can get a proper education and be able to think critically.

Until they are exposed to the ideas of democracy and not that the Dalai Lama is to be one of innumerable incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, i would not consider youtube unblocking to be a priority.

Tibetans right now need proper scientific education and until they move into this age of enlightenment, until they demand to see scientific evidence of reincarnation,
freedom of information access is of no use. They will simply be brainwashed by this information.

To free them from brainwash, either by the government or by enemies of the government, we need to first provide them with proper education to free their minds from this religious bondage. Unblocking youtube will not help. Teaching them math and science would.

The current Dalai Lama if he is a good leader ought to be promoting the education of science to his people and free his people minds from religious bondage and move his people into the scientific era instead of being stuck into a 2000 year old belief with no scientific basis.

By: whison

whison — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:58:57 +0000

No wonder i cannot get youtube~
What a disgusting thing to block it

By: John

John — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:07:15 +0000

The reason for the blocking is in this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2197690,00.html

By: mahathir_fan

mahathir_fan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:32:09 +0000

This is so sad.

I use youtube a lot to provide evidence to support my points.

For example, I use youtube to prove that nobody died on Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.

See minute 5:50:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=igsW5yQ6428

Also, I have recently used youtube to prove that Jesus Christ is nothing but a Sun God. It is a fake religion.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NgJIt_sxWcw

A lot of Chinese may not understand the second clip. I recommend downloading the English subtitle file and using a tool like babelfish to translate it to Chinese.

Please China, remove censorship of youtube so that Chinese society can move into the age of scientific era and throw away our superstituous beliefs.

Mao was right about religion and its time the truth gets out. Unblock youtube! We do not have to be afraid of the truth because we are the Truth!

By: inchina

inchina — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:59:56 +0000

youtube is blocked, pornsites still work though…

By: amasiam

amasiam — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:13:33 +0000

It,s blocked in Zhangzhou (Fujian province) China

By: Denied! « Chinese Dissonance

Denied! « Chinese Dissonance — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:15:23 +0000

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By: bimbamboogie

bimbamboogie — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:15:16 +0000

yeah,

It’s out in BeiJing

Lame.

By: Ashley Brown

Ashley Brown — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:07:01 +0000

I’m in China and yes youtube is blocked. I’m absolutely infuriated at this, because I have a background in the music industry and youtube was the only way I could keep up to date with current videos. I can’t possibly express how angry I am at how pathetically condescending and insulting this is. I’ll be leaving China at the earliest possible opportunity.

By: China hater =)

China hater =) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:56:13 +0000

I can’t believe that Youtube is blocked.
Wikipedia is blocked too, it was probably blocked long ago but I just had internet in Shanghai and it sucks SO bad.

By: monkeynuts

monkeynuts — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:37:31 +0000

Yes, i can confirm that it is blocked in most parts of china since i am in china. Furthermore most websites are being redirected to Baidu.com (a chinese search engine)….

This could be because of the present government meeting being held in china, the dalai lama being presented with a medal by the US and other factors as well…