Wikipedia, Flickr, BBC, and now, famous web2.0 video website Youtube has followed the trail.
Numerous of internet users in China complained in their blogs today that they failed to visit Youtube. Investigation shows in some area of China, after typing in the adresses of Youtube, Live, and Google Blogsearch, users will be automatically linked to Baidu, the biggest search engine of the country.
Just three days ago when China's 17th Communist Party Congress inaugurated, Google presented a generous gift to the party, ensuring that the searching of "17th congress" will doubtlessly resault in a blank page.
China has been stepping up its paces in censorship and control of the internet from as early as 2005 when Wikipedia was banned by the Great Fire Wall. Henceforth the BBC official website and the online photo album Flickr were added to the blacklist. Reasons of the restriction still remain unknown.
Facing the government's big stick, the magnate Goole choose to genuflect while Youtube cannot help but vanish in the harmonious socialist country.
18 October 2007
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