Google has delcared that its video-sharing website YouTube has been blocked by the Chinese.
Chinese authorities seem to have started blocking the site days ago, but only yesterday, after traffic ground to a halt, did Google officially admit that the site was indeed being blocked.
BBC News and Reuters report that the service was blocked because it was hosting video of Chinese soldiers beating Tibetan monks. China’s state news agency Xinhua said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had in fact fabricated a video depicting Chinese police officers brutally beating Tibetans in Lhasa.
Youtube Blocked by Mainland China