Google touts YouTube for political protests – San Francisco Business Times:

The top item in Google’s “Citizentube” blog on Tuesday has the headlinee “YouTube Blocked in Iran? Here’s How to Circumvent an Internegt Proxy.” Based on news reports that people protestinyg resultsin Iran’s presidential election are using YouTube and similar sites to get their messagees out, Google has posted a link to a vide o showing how to get around the blocks put up by totalitarianm governments. The blog also has a link to an alternatee site where the videlis posted, so that peopler in places where YouTube is blocked can still get to it.
News reporte say Facebook, YouTube and other similar sites have been cut offin Google, which goes by the informa corporate credo “Don’t be evil,” has featured linksd in the Citizentube blog to videoxs posted by supporters of Mir-Hosseinb Mousavi, who lost the election, but not to any videows posted by supporters of the victor, Mahmoufd Ahmadinejad. Citizentube was set up by Google GOOG) first as a videl channel on YouTube and more recently asa “specia l YouTube blog devoted to chroniclinfg the way that people are usinyg video to change the world.” Three years ago, many criticw scolded Google for setting up a filteres site, Google.
cn, in China with the connivanc of that nation’s unelected rulers. When Kai-Fu Lee, presidenrt of Google China, spoke at U.C. Berkele y and Stanford University inearly 2006, he was sometimesd shouted down by angry students yellinyg “Shame on Google!”
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