{"id":2356,"date":"2008-03-17T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2008-03-17T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:42:08","slug":"tibet-china-blocks-youtube-protests-spread-bloggers-react-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/tibet-china-blocks-youtube-protests-spread-bloggers-react-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibet: China blocks YouTube, protests spread, bloggers react &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/16\/tibet-china-blocks-y.html\" >Tibet: China blocks YouTube, protests spread, bloggers react &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>: &#8220;* Above left: phonecam snapshots of protests in Amdo, Tibet, over the weekend; at right, phonecam video of the same.<\/p>\n<p>* According to Shanghaiist (and now, mainstream news outlets), YouTube was blocked in China over the weekend, likely because of content related to the flood of pro-Tibetan-sovereignty protests in Tibet and elsewhere:<\/p>\n<p>International news channels such as CNN and BBC are also getting routinely blacked out. While we think this is a really poor way to deal with all the shit that&#8217;s going on, we have been there many, many times, and survived. Time to turn on your VPN again, people! An<br \/>\n* John Kennedy at Global Voices confirms the YouTube block:<br \/>\nAs Tibet transitioned into total lockdown and videos of the violent situation proliferated on YouTube, people began noticing Saturday afternoon in China that the video-sharing website could not be accessed. Tech blogger Rick Martin on the CNET Asia Little Red Blog has done some tests which confirm what many have assumed:<br \/>\n&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ccb97b6f-31a0-4c48-b5ad-6d275f394940.jpg\" alt=\"CCB97B6F-31A0-4C48-B5AD-6D275F394940.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" \/><br \/>\nCurrently playing in iTunes: <i>Soldier&#8217;s Song, From The Last War, For The Next<\/i> by The Open Window<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibet: China blocks YouTube, protests spread, bloggers react &#8211; Boing Boing: &#8220;* Above left: phonecam snapshots of protests in Amdo, Tibet, over the weekend; at right, phonecam video of the same. * According to Shanghaiist (and now, mainstream news outlets), YouTube was blocked in China over the weekend, likely because of content related to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/tibet-china-blocks-youtube-protests-spread-bloggers-react-boing-boing\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tibet: China blocks YouTube, protests spread, bloggers react &#8211; Boing Boing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-C0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}