China Blocks Youtube

China has blocked the website Youtube without giving a reason why. Google, which owns Youtube, said they noticed a decrease in traffic from China on Monday. Apparently when they go to the site an error message appears saying "Network timeout. The server at Youtube.com is taking too long to respond." Spokespeople for Google are saying that they do not know what is going on but they are trying to fix the problem. I cannot believe that the government in China can block a website without google knowing about it, and this isn't the first time they have done this. China also blocked Youtube in 2008 when riots broke out in Tibet. Some people are speculating that the block has to do with videos that are being posted by Tibetan exile groups. Apparently these videos show Tibetans being kicked and beaten by police officers and that explains why the government is trying prevent these images from reaching the public. Whatever the reason is, it sounds like there is a lot of bad things happening in China right now.