According to news reports, YouTube.com has been blocked in China by the Government since Monday.
“We do not know the reason for the blockage and we are working as quickly as possible to restore access to our users,” said Scott Rubin, a spokesman for Google, which owns YouTube.
China has blocked the site before, most recently in March 2008 during the riots in Tibet.
Communist countries spend a lot of time looking for websites to block.
It’s always a national security issue or that websites “encourage” dissident behavior or are seen as a threat on some level.
Communist governments hate to let their people have the freedom to decide what they want to see and Communist governments hate the truth. Those are two facts.
Since Google has to kiss China’s ass in order to have a presence there, Google is letting China tell Google what videos they must remove if they want to have a presence in China.
“we are working as quickly as possible to restore access to our users” means “we are deleting all the videos that the Chinese government is telling us that we have to in order to go live again”.
Yahoo even went to the extent of giving up the name of a Chinese dissident who is now in jail thanks to Yahoo.
So, my message to Google and any other company trying to get into China or any communist country is if you want to sell your soul and kiss the ass of Communist governments, then go ahead but you will be whoring yourself out and will always be their bitch because when you do what they say once then they know that they got you. Rest assured they will ask for more and more often for your compliance. Then, before you know it you are an empty shell of a company that is under the control of the Communist government.
Think I’m exaggerating or being paranoid?
I have a very popular Cuba news website that has been banned in Cuba for several years now and it’s too bad because it is a very balanced news site.
I was politely asked by a trusted associate when I was in Cuba (legally) to remove some content from my Cuba site. I said no then mysterious my site was banned in Cuba several months later.
They can all kiss my ass because I am certainly not going to kiss theirs.
Okay. I’m done.
Dude, China is more capitalistic than the USA itself. Most of Chinese does not give a flying fuk about free speech as long as they can more or less freely do a business. Which they can. Try to read some books and articles before ridicule yourself even more as posing as an “expert”.