I hope China doesn't try to ban cell phones with recording devices after this. It's a fuzzy boundary between the economic opportunism that China champions, and the freedom of speech that it's trying to subdue. This is really one of the most powerful forms of revolt that these people have right now.

Quoted: Cell-phone photographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and amateur, are circulating on the Internet. Some show clouds of tear gas; others burning buildings and shops; still others purple-robed monks, riot police, and confusion.