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YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries .
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [ note 1] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google ...
YouTube was first blocked in China for over five months from October 16, 2007 [ 7] to March 22, 2008. [ 8] It was blocked again from March 24, 2009, although a Foreign Ministry spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny whether YouTube had been blocked. [ 9] Since then, YouTube has been inaccessible from mainland China. [ 10]
Tâi-oân le̍k-sú. The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. [1] [2] The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ancestors of today's Taiwanese indigenous peoples. [3]
The Hmong in China are often happy or proud to be known as Miao while most Hmong outside China find it offensive. [15] [16] Little is known about the origin of the Miao term and the people it referenced historically, since the Han used it loosely to identify non-Han in Southern China. [17] Its origin can be dated before the Qin dynasty (221 BCE).
TikTok has come under scrutiny due to data privacy violations, mental health concerns, misinformation, offensive content, and its role during the Israel–Hamas war. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Countries have fined, banned, or attempted to restrict TikTok to protect children or out of national security concerns over possible user data collection by the ...
Imports of opium into China stood at 200 chests annually in 1729, [ 1] when the first anti-opium edict was promulgated. [ 2][ 3] By the time Chinese authorities reissued the prohibition in starker terms in 1799, [ 4] the figure had leaped; 4,500 chests were imported in the year 1800. [ 1] The decade of the 1830s witnessed a rapid rise in opium ...
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...