Well, it looks like YouTube has been unblocked. Sort of...

It seems far from fully functional just yet. Check this screencast I just whipped up to see what I mean:



I'm not sure if the timeout is because of keyword searches for Tibet or Lhasa or what the heck is going on. I'm done trying to figure out the censors.

But Pete Lin confirms that YouTube is essentially useless for him as well. And Marc Van der Chijs also reports having a short 2-minute ban imposed as well.

I have a sneaking suspicion it's so China can now defend against all the censorship accusations. "Block? What block? There's YouTube right there! Don't you see it?!! That means no block!"

Twitter has been giving me similar timeout problems over the past few days as well. Is anyone else having problems with Twitter? Whatever's going on, I hope China can be a little more transparent to the media. Its official denials are oftentimes so blatantly ridiculous that this is starting to remind me of an old Chinese idiom.

此地无银三百两 or "300 silver coins are not buried here".

An old Chinese man had 300 silver coins, and after burying them in his backyard, he wrote these words over top of them: 此地无银三百两, meaning 300 silver coins are not buried here.



The state media would do well to remember that one. Lie enough times, and people will just come to believe the opposite is true.

"No violence was used in the Tibet crackdowns."
"The situation is under control."

I'd really love to believe those statements are not lies.

 

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