Coincidence? History Repeats Itself Exactly One Year Later

In a move that only this country could do, China has banned YouTube.
"YouTube has been blocked in China since yesterday," company spokesman Scott Rubin said. "We do not know the reason for the blockage, and we're working as quickly as possible to restore access to our users in China."

Chinese authorities have a history of blocking websites, even YouTube, as they are deemed politically unacceptable or offensive to their people. One year ago this month access to the site was barred in China after video clips began appearing on the site showing violent unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa that triggered a virtual lock down of the city by security forces.

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A spokesman for the Chinese consulate in San Francisco told AFP he didn't have any information about YouTube being blocked in China. "I suspect the real reason might be that YouTube just launched a Chinese version, which would make the site much more accessible for Chinese users," he wrote. "Not a very smart idea to do that in the middle of the National Congress, and I am surprised nobody at mother company Google's China offices rang an alarm bell about this before launch." SinoDaily