Following moves by Twitter and Facebook earlier this week, Google shuts down more than 200 YouTube channels.
Google has shut down 210 channels on YouTube it said were part of a"coordinated” attempt to post material about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.
However, unlike those companies, Google stopped short of explicitly saying it believed the Chinese government had been behind the now-disabled accounts.
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