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YouTube blocked in China

Google said that its YouTube video-sharing website had been blocked in China. Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a report by the official news agency Xinhua said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video that appeared to show Chinese police officers brutally beating Tibetans after […]

By Index on Censorship

25 Mar 09

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Google said that its YouTube video-sharing website had been blocked in China.

Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a report by the official news agency Xinhua said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video that appeared to show Chinese police officers brutally beating Tibetans after riots in Lhasa in 2008.