Thursday, March 26, 2009

Drew-Foreign markets tough for YouTube

I checked out the article Mark posted and found some more about the block of YouTube in China. The heavy internet regulation isn't only in China. It seems like the moment that the government finds something in a website offensive there isn't much evaluation and the entire site is banned. The article went on to talk about the control countries want but don't have over websites like YouTube because they are foreign. In China a big competitor of YouTube is tuduo.com, which the government doesn't mind because they can regulate it. This makes it hard for Internet sites and companies to break into that huge market. I can't say I feel too bad for these huge companies but more so for the citizens. This isn't just in China either. Companies are trying to penetrate markets around the globe that have emergent Internet use but are having difficulty in some places. YouTube isn't only blocked and/or regulated in China but also in Thailand, Pakistan, Turkey, and Germany.

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