Why China's Block On YouTube Is Backfiring

Help fight China's Propaganda: Tell the world about Tibetans' suffering.

The Chinese authorities have stooped to a new low in their efforts to rewrite history. Their latest propaganda campaign declares March 28th "Serf Emancipation Day" - an annual "holiday" to "celebrate the liberation of Tibet," and now You Tube!

The fateful day when Chinese authorities dissolved the Tibetan government following the Dalai Lama's escape from Lhasa and unleashed a wave of suffering on Tibetans that continues today.

Let's show the Chinese leadership that no matter how hard they try, the world will never believe their lies. The global community knows the truth of China's 50 years of brutal occupation in Tibet.

TAKE ACTION

Tell the world what you know 50 years of Chinese occupation has meant for the Tibetan people:

Record a 60 second video of yourself explaining in your own words what you know to be the reality of China's occupation in Tibet. Watch a sample video.
Record your family members, friends, chapter members or people in your community. We will post the videos on the SFT blog and website.
If you aren't able to record a video, send us a short written statement (max 100 words).
Instructions for submitting videos:
Make sure the movie file is a .MOV or .AVI file. Make sure your video is under 100MB.
1) Go to http://www.yousendit.com
2) Go to the top right hand corner of the screen to LOGIN
3) user name: grassroots@studentsforafreetibet.org ; password: freetibet
4) enter this email address in the To: field: chand@studentsforafreetibet.org
5) select file to upload and SEND IT!

The Chinese government is doing everything in its power to silence Tibetans inside Tibet, but their supporters around the world will continue to speak out on their behalf.

Help us show the Chinese authorities that the world knows the truth about Tibet, and that their propaganda only serves to strengthen the resolve of Tibetans and supporters everywhere to fight for Tibet's freedom.

Thank you speaking the truth about China's occupation of Tibet,

Sergi Vicente, Beijing correspondent from Televisio de Catalunya, has been to Tibet and Qinghai. He believed that great progress has been made in Tibet and the Chinese government "has invested a lot and tried to make people happy."

"Many people in the West have never been to Tibet but they say things such as, that Tibetan culture is disappearing or the Tibetan language is forbidden. I am disappointed about this kind of ignorance," he said.

The new and shocking video that just came out is one more example of China's brutal occupation and treatment of the Tibetan People. It is absolutely a crime what the Chinese Government has, and is doing to these people. Every official in China's government needs to be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Tribunals to stand trial for these heinous and unforgivable acts of hate.
Tibet will be free!!!!!!!!!

Tibet is free already, free for the ordinary hardworking Tibetan people. The descendants of the former slaveowners who advocate for theocracy, slavery, superstition and inhuman punishments like skinning deserve no freedom.

eastbreeze...clean your latrine.... we, the rest of the world are tired of listening to your sh** and would like you to fix tibet.
you obviously cannot see past your own theocracy, racism, arrogance, pride, history and nose to see the truth that the world already knows and shares
the world loves the Dalai Lama and the tibetans.
Will you please listen to the peoples demand! fix tibet you communist, racist mother eating bast**d!

Chinatoon

Can you do anything more than lying and barking?

loh...i'm glad i'm not you dumb**ss

I appreciate Austin's acknowledgement re concertainty of the accuracy of the images produced by the Tibetan government-in-exile. I see this as a great improvement from a professional journalism perspective comparing with what happened last year before the Olympic Games.

While the Chinese government is undoubtfully still in its infancy in terms of public relationship, the Tibetan government-in-exile has sunk itself down to another lower level.

So Dalai, as the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile really deserves the name Da Liar.

Chinatoon
All you have said only showed the world how ill-bred you are. You are not qualified to align yourself with my Tibetan brothers and sisters, they are tolerant and peaceloving, because they believes in Buddism. You are just too rude to be an advocate of Buddhists.

The footage is fake. It actually comes from an anti Chinese street drama. The Chinese police no longer use that Culture Revelation era uniform ages ago.
The Chinese government block the Youtube is stupid. Although we all know the Tibet government in exile and its followers are all very skilful in propaganda.

Bluescreen, the uniforms in the 2008 section of the footage reflect the post-2005 uniform changes; therefore, they cannot be from an anti-Chinese street drama about the Cultural Revolution.

Also, the 2008 section uniforms are the same as those filmed and photographed by hundreds of Tibetans, Chinese, and tourists last year in Tibet, including the shoulder patch of the man who is saying, "Hao le, hao le."

So, it's interesting you would try to say this is a Cultural Revolution movie, without noticing that the uniforms are modern.

Also, Bluescreen, if this were simply a movie clip, and the uniforms were from the Cultural Revolution, there would be no need to block YouTube, because all Chinese citizens would know the difference. It would be in Beijing's interest to leave a "fake" video up for all to see, so everyone could see how shameful Tibetans are.

However, Beijing immediately blocked the video.

@chinatoon While encouraging folks to video record a statement of their experience is great, I don't recommend sharing your private username and password access of any site. The file sharing site drop.io is a better tool for what you want to do. By the way, does name calling really help advancing your cause? I don't think His Holiness would approve some of your other comments.

Blocking YouTube doesn't stop the owner of the video to post it elsewhere. There are a lot of video sharing sites out there. The Hub is one of them and its sole focus is human rights. I wonder if it is already blocked in China.

It is great that China has blocked youtube so that this video cannot be seen in China. Chinese government cannot allow such violent video be seen by peaceful Chinese people. It is a very good and effective way to ensure that China is harmonized and remain stable. Chinese need stability and food on the table more than humane treatment of people, and human rights. And since the Chinese government is unable to give Chinese all of the things they need, and Chinese people prefer stability and food over humane treatment and human rights, Chinese government has made the right choice.

By blocking the youtube site, Chinese government has shown the world how much it knows about the internet and communication. It is just as revealing as the call for a new world currency by the Chinese government in the understanding of the Chinese government about world trade, economy and currency. This piece of information is invaluable to all other nations when they are dealing with the Chinese government. Governments of all nations around the world must thank the Chinese government for such useful information.

Tibet was free, before 1600's. It was a proud nation. Therefore, there is no need to free it now, as it will hurt the feeling of Han's and cause them to loose face.

saulaan: you were assuming the Chinese government was smart enough to realize that "all Chinese citizens would know the difference." But I think the Chinese government knows the Chinese citizens much better than you do, and that's why they block the video.

"The Chinese government block the Youtube is stupid. Although we all know the Tibet government in exile and its followers are all very skilful in propaganda."

Something is wrong here. "The Chinese government .. is stupid" and "the Tibet government in exile ... very skillful in propaganda" ? Shouldn't it be "The Tibet government in exile is stupid" and "The Chinese government is skillful" ?

Freudian slip ?

[...] still operating from a standpoint that what their people don’t know can’t hurt the CCP, has blocked YouTube following the posting of a video purporting to show the beating of unarmed tibetan protestors. In so [...]

We've got desperated officials from SFFT on this blog!
WoW!
And with their president being a Canadian and their advisors from both the western far left and far right camps, they've become the master of western political languages and the expert of the so-called grass-root political campain.
But unfortunately, their western style campain skills do not work well when it comes to dealing with the Chinese government.
And with their western god fathers are in deep trouble themselves, their campain skills are no longer effective in influencing the western governments and/or the western public ... At the end of the day, people care more about their own wallets more than anything else.
Plus, the Olympic Games have long gone. So, there is no face-saving things for the Chinese government to worry about. Burning-a-flag-in front-of-a-Chinese-ambassy type of thing does not consitute "good news" for the western media.
The world have changed! Unfortunately not necessarily towards the direction SFFT wish it to change.
So, perhaps Tibetan students of SFFT, should get rid of their Canadian president and their western advisors and turn their faces and hearts to the east, including buddhism (not necessarily the Tibetan one)and the Chinese philosophies for inspiration and learn how to comprimise.
Western students of SFFT, including the president herself, on the other hand, had better have their mouths shut up. Go back home. Find job.

Groups such as SFFT should be under close scrutiny by the reasonable people around the world.
For the west, Taliban (students) is certainly not a sweat memory. And reasonable people would probably conclude that one such organization is enough for the world.

"Groups such as SFFT should be under close scrutiny by the reasonable people around the world." Excellent. That means no Chinese will be doing that, and 2morrow2 will certainly be out. It is too bad that it failed to land itself a job by including the word "reasonable"

China has 300 millions netizens, 40 times of 10 years ago and 2.2 millions websites and over 1 million blogs. To close few sites with scenes of bloody gangsters, and swindling Daliar and ugly whores is sure an health and great deed.
Dalai's funny face could certainly be shown again on Youtube if he talked about China as he did months ago:
"We are not seeking separation. Tibet is a poor country, materially very backward. Average Tibetan wanted to live in a more modern society".
"For this reason, it was important that Tibet remain part of China so it could profit from its booming economy. We get maximum benefit, provided (there is) autonomy. That is the safeguard of Tibet's unique cultural heritage."
"We are not seeking separation. Sooner or later we'll talk with China's government so the question of independence or separation is out of the question."
"Not only outside but even inside there are people who really are very critical about our approach"
"It is an indication that China is changing, becoming more open, and I think the leadership gradually or cautiously moves onto more openness, more transparent. It is a wonderful, an encouraging sign."
"Their ambition is to become a superpower. It is deserved -- most populous nation and ancient nation."
You know what, I love this side of face of Dalai the Janus.

Wow - a lot of babbling about nothing, just to create smoke to try and cover up this video of PAP beating Tibetans.

It is a very sensitive video, and it should be. The embarrassment felt by China over this is nothing compared to the pain felt by the victims of the beatings, nor by the families of those who died.

Dalai, Big liar!!!!

I want to ask ,if the video is real, how did Dalai get it? Have you ever thought about this.Everyone knows it's fake,but they say it true for they hate The Chinese goverment and her people.

It's interesting that so many people of the US and Europe countries believe the China is evil and DaLai is good.Why? You, the western, can believe the anti-china guys words but wouldn't like to listen chinese people' words.Because you're afraid of China,you are afraid of the chinese people.You cann't bear that the people who are poor will be richer than you in future, you cann't bear that china will be a richest country,which will be richer than yours.Lincoln,the hero of america,who fighted for the unificationof the US,is to be recognized as great.Chinese Communist,the hero of China,which are fighting the rebels and want to keep the country's unification,are to be think of evil. Can you tell me why? how many of you have been to tibet?Do you really know what has happened in this area? I've a friend from Tibet,he said to me the Chinese Communist make his life better.It is the fact i can promise.and who can promise the video and your words are reality? in fact, you don't concern the life of tibet'people,you just concern what is bad for the chinese people.If Dalai is a good guy ,I believe Osama bin Laden is a good man too.You are the criminal who killed his people.Da Lai's action is equal to Laden' action.Da lai killed many chinese and Laden killed many american.If every chinese official should be killed(just as chinatoon's words),then all the official of US should be killed too.Tibet belongs to China forever and the American have no right to censure the Chinese.Before you censure the Chinese,please consider your actions about Guantanamo,Iraq and Afghanistan,please consider how many people you have killed in the world.