The recent riots in Tibet is causing much attention for the Chinese these days. The whole world has their eyes on China as the 2008 Olympics will be held in Beijing this year and China is trying to secure their Olympic interests from protesters in Tibet. A series of YouTube videos was showing some of the things that were going on in China and now the Chinese has ban the popular U.S. based company You Tube. I’m sure millions of people in China were using You Tube to upload their various videos and now the country has cut ties to any participation with Youtube and their citizens.

I’m not sure what the world thinks of this ban yet, but I’m sure a lot of innocent Chinese citizens are being punished because a few users decided to upload the protests in Tibet. I really don’t know how they can just ban a website like that, but I guess Chinese officials thought this was the best move. A lot of pressure is going to be on the Eastern Nation later on in the year to pull off the 2008 Olympics with no hitches. China has taken extreme measures over the last few weeks to insure the security of their nation and for the security of all the Olympic athletes that will be arriving in Beijing later this year. Some athletes have worked their whole lives to try and win a medal in a Olympic Event and now they might have to worry about their safety; while trying to follow their life-long dreams.

So if your in China now and your trying to bring up YouTube on your screen, all your going to get is a blank screen. That is what millions of people are seeing now as they try to bring up YouTube on their computer screens. Other user-generated video carriers in China have not had any of these controversial videos being shown and censorship is very important to the Chinese Government. I’m sure YouTube has seen a dramatic drop in traffic since China has banned YouTube from being shown in China.