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After arriving tonight, I quickly jumped onto the internet and checked up on the football scores. It looks like Collingwood beat West Coast in extra time – I kind of regret not watching the match. After the match finished, I went to Youtube to look for interesting videos that I can put on my Superwall at Facebook. I haven’t tried out the Youtube function on the Superwall, so I am interested to see what it is like and whether any of my ‘friends’ would be interested in watching the video. I searched for the word ‘Beijing’ and it came up with mostly links to Sexy Beijing and Danwei’s Hard Hat series. There was a few other links as well, probably some of them were political but I didn’t really notice. Anyway, I clicked on the next button to bring up the following page of links but Youtube blacked out and Firefox came up with the 'link has been reset’ message. I went back to the previous page and tried to search for the word ‘Chinese’ but Youtube blacked out again. I then went to a different page and tried to get back into Youtube, but it was impossible.
Five minutes later I could access Youtube again and I did a search for the word ‘China’. Up came a link for a video featuring a Japanese porn star called China. Isn’t porn meant to be banned in China? If so, how come this link wasn’t banned, but links associated with ‘Beijing’ and ‘Chinese’ were?
Because I am writing this post while surfing the net, I can now inform readers that Youtube has blacked out again – this time after I clicked for the next page of links associated with the word ‘China’. So basically you only get the chance to type in a banned word once before the internet nanny clamps down, even if the word is something as innocent as China, Chinese or Beijing. |
Posted: 10:13 PM, 14/9/2007 in Blogging and the mediaShare on Facebook |
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youtube problems
| if I understand your problem, it has nothing to do with banned words, its just that youtbue in China is very strange. Every time I do a search (even for something that would never get banned), there is no problem viewing the first page or any video on it, but that's as far as you can get. I have no idea why this is... |
Posted by b. cheng at 2:49 PM, 17/9/2007 |
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