The Guardian is one of a wide range of western news sources that has found itself blocked in China as a result of the recent unrest in Tibet. My colleagues on the media team have covered the details of our editor's official complaint, and media columnist Roy Greenslade asks a few questions about getting information out of the country.
It's not just us, of course - other international media has been blocked too, and Google's also found some of its properties screened out by the authorities. This is despite the ongoing work by the internet leviathan to work with the Chinese regime.
What does that mean? I've been a consistent critic of the technology industry's dealings in China, which seem to me to be an integral part of the country's control of information. And if, after all of Google's work to get the Chinese on side, the situation simply ends up with Beijing locking things down as normal then it's all meant nothing. Don't forget, even if YouTube was run out of China, it would be tightly regulated.
