China's attempt to silence political opinions strikes again, this time with an IP Address block on Google's YouTube video sharing site. Access was blocked beginning Monday for several speculated causes--many sources say a video that illustrates Chinese Security Personnel maiming, choking, and kicking Tibetans is to blame. The Chinese Government states that this video is a lie.
Tech-savvy publication, Wired, also points to United States Navy videos of Chinese vessels trying to harass American ships and snag a Sonar array behind the USNS Impeccable earlier in the month.
China has been implementing several resource-intensive methods to censor the Internet in its project nicknamed The Great Firewall of China. These methods include IP Address blocking, DNS filtering and redirection, DNS Poisoning, URL Filtering, Packet filtering, temporary connection resets to filtered addresses, blocking ".rss" and/or "blog" domains, and reverse surveillance.
ChinaChannel keeps track of PRC's censorship and manifests it in the form of a Firefox plugin that allows users to surf the Internet as if we were citizens of China. From The New York Times to RollingStone, some of America's most valuable news sources are inaccessible.
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Many blocks such as this can also be seen in a lot of Middle Eastern countries, to include the more liberal United Arab Emerits and Bahrain.
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