Hello, Goodbye relationship with Youtube.com

After it was restored for one day, Youtube.com is again blocked in China.

The most recent news articles I can access here are from last Thursday, reporting the Chinese government lifted its ban on Youtube.com. I suppose I'll report from here myself, since last night it's been blocked again.

"On Friday, people in Beijing access the site without using special software to enter it through a proxy server, a common way of getting around Internet walls put up by the government. Google said Tuesday that China had blocked YouTube but that it did not know why. The block came during a week when China was criticizing an Internet video, released by the Tibetan government in exile and put up on YouTube and other Web sites, that showed Chinese security officers beating handcuffed Tibetans."-taken from Edward Wong's New York Times brief

China is reporting this video was fabricated. Other sites that are recently blocked: keepvid.com and many pornography Web sites, according to this article.

"China has closed more than 2,000 Web sites and arrested at least 45 people in a sting against online porn launched in January. It has also vowed to stamp out erotic text messages sent on cell phones. Various blog hosts have been shut down as well, including some known for political content that ran against the central government line. " -taken from Network World article.

'Atta boy China–way to be vigilant. (For my students who read my blog frequently and for those of you in my writing class where we're about to study sarcasm, parody and satire, this is sarcasm.)