China reportedly has blocked access to YouTube without providing Google, which owns the video-sharing site, with any official explanation — or even confirmation that it has indeed turned the site dark. It’s suspected that the government objected to recently uploaded videos of Chinese police beating Tibetan monks. China has blocked access to YouTube in the past on similar grounds. China’s silence on the access blockage is standard operating procedure, according to Usha C. V. Haley, an Asia fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
