China's video sharing clampdown
Updated on 04 January 2008
Tacky. Distasteful. But would you call the kind of videos on sites like YouTube "degenerate"? That's what the Chinese government thinks.
Beijing is to crack down on video sharing websites.
But many fear that this isn't the kind of material that is worrying the Chinese.
Videos including footage from the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 is already banned in China.
And to further tighten up the rules, from the end of this month, only state owned video sharing sites will be allowed in China.
China already has one of the most tightly controlled internet services in the world. So why do they need to insist on total state ownership of the sites?
Matt Whitticase, from the Free Tibet campaign, joined More4 News to discuss the issue.
