What is fascinating here is the extra dimension of the web when it comes to managing protests of this nature. The web has become the new weapon of the weak but you wonder why the Chinese are trying to censorthe crackdown.
The majority Han Chinese have been historically indifferent to Tibetan strife. Or are the Chinese authorities trying to prevent a precedent from developing? Let this one slip and the next time it could be a civil unrest involving Han Chinese using YouTube.
Analysis: Tibet crackdown spreads to Web |
| WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) — The Chinese authorities’ crackdown on Tibetan protests spread to the Internet at the weekend, with censors blocking YouTube and other sites as the Dalai Lama accused the regime of “cultural genocide” against his people.
Chinese authorities blocked access to the U.S.-based video-sharing Web site YouTube at the weekend after users uploaded dozens of videos of the protests in which Buddhist monks and other Tibetan protesters clashed with Chinese authorities, leaving dozens of police injured and an unknown number of protesters dead.
There were no such videos available from China-based video-sharing sites, such as youku.com. Last month 50 such sites were required by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television to sign a “self-discipline agreement,” according to Marbridge Consulting, a market research firm specializing in China’s telecommunications and IT sectors. |
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