China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos

March 16, 2008

(AP) -- Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular U.S. video Web site.

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Communist Chinese's Freedom of Speech. Gold medal for and oxymoron.
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