Talk:Xin Hua/@comment-26192563-20150507134510/@comment-53539-20150507181451

Generally china is rather strict about content on the net. I remember them discussing in the early 2000's this 1 guy who so far had had a site remain, despite it being a anti-government protest website. the Chinese gov doesn't like anti-gov. or protest websites, or didn't in the early 2000s and is often known to shut or block any site that is or potentially could be "misused" for this purposes.

China doesn't have such a free-speech as the west mostly does. :-/

Considering, I also recalled anything BBC related is blocked also, or was also in the 2000s for this similar reason. I remember the chinese government showing on the news how well their new court was handling cases, meanwhile outside the court protesters waiting for their case to be seen were protesting over their cases being rejected, and the BBC reported on it. Such a contradiction to the image they wanted to be displayed is why many countries don't like BBCs either.

In other words, youtube being blocked doesn't honestly surprise me, I'd already half-guessed.... So I sort of thought it was the greater world -wide audience bringing in the interest on youtube. :-/