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Google Resolution Near: Youtubecn.com Launched!

Today Google documents service was not blocked in China, but more interesting, on the 21st Youtubecn.com was being discussed on douban discussion boards.  This is a youtube.com look-a-like that does not allow comments or uploading of videos, and it does not have the same videos as youtube, having removed videos the CCP would dislike or else making their icons link back to the youtubecn.com homepage.  It does however have videos making fun of Tibetan protesters.  A rather weak, tentative foray into the Chinese online video market that opens itself to the same criticism for censorship that google is so roundly denouncing and propagandizing in the US.  It also comes at an interesting time as many websites are losing their video streaming licenses.