Youtube banned in China
Youtube the popular video-sharing website has been banned in China after footage of recent deadly protests in Tibet appeared on the video posting site. The banned came after video clips began appearing on the site showing violent unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa that triggered a virtual lockdown of the city by security forces.
China, which strictly controls access to information, has kept a tight lid on news out of Lhasa, with foreign journalists being denied access & foreign tourists ordered out of the city. The only footage broadcast by state-run media so far has been a short clip showing Tibetan rioters in the city destroying Chinese shops, but nothing has been released on the resulting crackdown by police.
China’s official death count puts the toll at 10, but the India-based Tibetan government-in-exile says at least 80 deaths have been confirmed. China also has been regularly blacking out the domestic feed of CNN whenever it runs a story about the Tibet unrest.
Earlier, Pakistan government had banned Youtube for having “blasphemous” content & material considered offensive to Islam. The order, issued by the governemnt claimed the ratio of “non-Islamic objectionable video” has increased on the website.
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