{"id":5168,"date":"2009-03-24T22:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T22:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2009-03-25T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:16:15","slug":"youtube-blocked-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/03\/24\/youtube-blocked-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube blocked in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\">China<\/a> has blocked YouTube after footage of soldiers beating monks and other Tibetans appeared on the site.<\/p>\n<p>BBC News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7961069.stm\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"first\">The date and location of the footage, posted by a Tibetan exile group, cannot be ascertained.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese government spokesman would not confirm whether YouTube had indeed been blocked.<\/p>\n<p>China has a history of blocking websites which carry messages it views as politically unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>In most of China, YouTube has suddenly become inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>The site has been carrying a graphic video released by Tibetan exiles, which shows hundreds of uniformed Chinese troops swarming through a Tibetan monastery &#8211; a group of troops beat a man with batons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a Reuters report featuring the footage that got the Chinese government upset:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OVf1tbkHCNw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OVf1tbkHCNw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tibet#20th_century\">Find out more about the dispute between China and Tibet at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7261727.stm\">BBC News on how Pakistan blocked YouTube last year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has blocked YouTube after footage of soldiers beating monks and other Tibetans appeared on the site. BBC News report: The date and location of the footage, posted by a Tibetan exile group, cannot be ascertained. A Chinese government spokesman would not confirm whether YouTube had indeed been blocked. China has a history of blocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}