[chao-]

If I am reading btw0's comment correctly, it isn't that they are ordering them to stop serving video forever, but instead that they are illegally doing so, because they do not have the proper license. Should they acquire the proper license, they would be able to provide the "video and audio program" features again.

Now, as btw0 notes, these licenses are scarce, and so this amounts to a _de facto_ ban of a sort for people who only know about these popular sites, but it is not a ban in the strict sense.

[euyyn]

So it's like the case of TV news in Venezuela, where you can't say the government banned news in general, only news that don't pass their censorship. Chinese get to see video streams, but only those the government wants to spoon-feed them.