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| − | '''YouTube''' is the most visited online video-sharing website in the world. It was blocked |
+ | '''YouTube''' is the most visited online video-sharing website in the world. It was blocked in many countries due of many reasons. It is currently blocked in mainland [[Eritrea]], [[Iran]], [[North Korea]], [[South Sudan]], and [[Turkmenistan]]. It is the second most-visited website in the world. |
| − | ==Countries |
+ | ==Countries that have blocked access to YouTube== |
| + | *[[Afghanistan]] (12 September - 1 December 2012 due to ''[[Innocence of Muslims]]'') |
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| − | ===Afganistan=== |
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| + | *[[Armenia]] (8 March - 8 April 2008) |
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| − | YouTube was blocked in Afganistan on September 12, 2012 due of the hosting of the trailer to the controversial film about Muhammad, Innocence of Muslims, which the authorities considered to be blasphemous. YouTube was unblocked on Afganistan on December 1, 2012. |
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| + | *[[Bangladesh]] (9-21 March 2009; 17 September 2012 - 5 June 2013 due to ''[[Innocence of Muslims]]'') |
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| − | ===Armenia=== |
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| + | *[[Brazil]] (6-9 January 2007) |
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| − | Following the disputed February 2008 presidential elections, the Armenian government blocked Internet users' access to YouTube only for a month. Armenians had used YouTube at time of the blocking to publicize video of alleged police brutality against anti-government protesters. |
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| + | *[[China]] (October 16, 2007 - March 22, 2008; March 24, 2009 - October 22, 2023; |
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| − | ===Bangladesh=== |
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| + | *October 23, 2023 - present, but it was later unblocked later that day) |
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| − | In March 2009, YouTube was blocked in Bangladesh after a recording of an alleged meeting between the prime minister and army officers was posted revealing anger by the military on how the government was handling a mutiny by border guards in Dhaka. The block for YouTube was lifted on March 21, 2009. |
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| + | *[[Denmark]] (Music on YouTube in Denmark was blocked in July 2020 - present) due to copyright claims by KODA. |
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| + | *[[Finland]] (Music videos were blocked in Finland on 30 November 2017, but it was later unblocked later that day) |
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| + | *[[Germany]] (Music videos were blocked in Germany on 31 March 2009 - 31 October 2016) |
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| + | *[[Indonesia]] (5-10 April; May 2008) |
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| + | *[[Libya]] (24 January 2010 - November 2011) |
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| + | *[[Malaysia]] (Videos about the criticism of the Malaysian government were blocked in Malaysia in May 2013) |
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| + | *[[Morocco]] (25-30 May 2007) |
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| + | *[[North Korea]] (April 4, 2016 - present) |
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| + | *[[Pakistan]] (25-27 February 2008; 20-27 May 2010; 17 September 2012 - 6 December 2015 due to ''[[Innocence of Muslims]]'') |
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| + | *[[Sudan]] (2008; 21 April 2010; 17 September 2012 due to ''[[Innocence of Muslims]]'') |
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| + | *[[Tajikistan]] (July 2012; 2013 - 2019) |
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| + | *[[Thailand]] (2006; 8-10 March 2007; 3 April - 30 August 2007) |
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| + | **Any video prejudicial to Thai royalty is blocked. |
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| + | *[[Tunisia]] (2007 - 18 December 2010) |
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| + | *[[Türkiye]] (6-9 March 2007; 5 May 2008 - 30 October 2010; March 27 - May 29, 2014; June 1, 2014; April 6, 2015; 23-25 December 2016) |
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| + | *[[United Arab Emirates]] (August - October 2006) |
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| + | *[[Uzbekistan]] (15 October 2018) |
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| + | *[[Venezuela]] (January 21, 2019; February 22, 2019; February 23, 2019; March 6, 2019; April 15, 2019; November 16, 2019) |
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| + | ==Countries that have restricted access to YouTube== |
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| − | YouTube was blocked once again on September 17, 2012, due of the controversies regarding the promotional videos for Innocence of Muslims. On June 5, 2013, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission lifted the ban almost after a year. |
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| + | *[[Eritrea]] (2011 - present) |
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| − | ===Brazil=== |
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| + | *[[Iran]] (December 3, 2006 - June 12, 2009; September 24, 2012 - January 17, 2016 due to ''[[Innocence of Muslims]]''; January 20, 2016 - present, but it is unblocked on schools and universities for educational purposes in Iran starting from August 2017) |
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| − | YouTube was sued by Brazilian model and MTV Brasil VJ Daniela Cicarelli, which is the ex-fiancee of the Brazilian footballer Ronaldo) and her boyfriend in January 2007, due of the fact that the website hosted a video recorded paparazzi in which she and her boyfriend were having sexual intercourse on a Spanish beach, although the video did not contain explicit content, but the lawsuit asked that YouTube to be blocked in Brazil until all copies of the video are removed. On Saturday, January 6, 2007, a legal injunction ordered that filters be put in place to prevent users in Brazil from accessing YouTube. |
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| + | *[[Russia]] (28 July - August 2010; 2022 due to the war with Ukraine) |
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| + | *[[South Sudan]] (2012 - present) |
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| + | *[[Turkmenistan]] (25 December 2009 - present) |
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| + | ==Content guidelines== |
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| − | The effectiveness of the measure was questioned, since the video was available not only on YouTube, but also on other sites as part of an Internet phenomenon. On January 9, 2007, the same court overturned its previous decision, allowing the filters to be removed. The video footage itself remained banned and was to be removed from YouTube and other sites. |
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| + | ===Sensitive content=== |
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| + | Examples of violating YouTube policies that can give YouTubers an age-restriction, strike, or a ban, include videos that may include nudity/sexual content, inappropriate thumbnails, harm to children, graphically depicted/promoted suicide, and highly vulgar language. More info on these guidelines can be found [https://support.google.com/youtube/topic/2803176?hl=en&ref_topic=6151248 here]. |
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| + | ===Demonetization=== |
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| − | In June 2007, a judge ordered Cicarelli and her boyfriend to pay all court and lawyer costs, as well as R$10,000 (roughly US$3,203) to the three defendants, YouTube, Globo, and iG, citing a lack of good faith in pushing the privacy case when their actions took place in public. |
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| + | Advertiser-friendly content guidelines have caused popular YouTubers who want to earn money from ads to self-censor suggestive elements of their videos to avoid demonetization. Content that are considered not advertiser-friendly include, but not limited to, inappropriate language, violence, adult content, and shocking content, along with more recent topics not yet added to guidelines including usage of copyrighted content and recent controversial issues such as COVID-19. The full list of guidelines can be found [https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en#zippy= here]. |
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| − | ===Finland=== |
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| − | Most of the music videos on YouTube were blocked on November 30, 2017 by by Finnish nonprofit performance rights organization Teosto in Finland. According to them, Google blocked the videos because they did not have an agreement to show music videos in Finland. According to Teosto, they and Google have made a temporary agreement to show the videos in the morning of November 30, 2017. The music videos started to return to YouTube and became unblocked in Finland later that day. |
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| − | ===Germany=== |
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| − | Most of the YouTube videos (including music videos) were blocked by Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights – GEMA), a performance rights organization in Germany, from 2009 until 2016. It was apart of the YouTube and GEMA dispute. |
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| + | ==External links== |
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| − | According to a German court in Hamburg, Google's subsidiary YouTube can be held liable for damages when it hosts copyrighted videos without the copyright holder's permission. As a result, music videos for major label artists on YouTube, as well as many videos containing background music, have been unavailable in Germany since the end of March 2009 after the previous agreement had expired and negotiations for a new license agreement were stopped. On October 31, 2016, YouTube and GEMA reached an agreement over royalties, ending a seven-year-long battle of blocking music videos in Germany. Currently, the music videos are unblocked in Germany. |
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| + | *[https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/overview/ Policies overview] at YouTube |
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| + | *[[w:c:youtube:Countries that have blocked YouTube|Countries that have blocked YouTube]] at Wikitubia: The YouTube Wiki |
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| + | *{{w|Censorship of YouTube}} at Wikipedia |
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| − | On November 23, 2016, just a month after GEMA unblocked videos on YouTube in Germany, the German Kommission für Zulassung und Aufsicht (Commission for Authorization and Supervision), which is formed by representatives of German public broadcast stations, required PietSmiet & Co., a German let's-player operating his own YouTube channel to get a German broadcast license by April 30, 2017, or else be regarded as an illegal pirate radio broadcaster for livestreaming, even when no radio spectrum use is included. Some YouTubers, even non profit, might fail at the expensive fee for applying a license. On April 30, 2017, the livestreaming channel PietSmietTV went offline. The channel PietSmiet remained online due not providing 24/7 hours of streaming. The channel was mentioned in a requirement of a license. |
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| − | In 2019, Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is feared and criticized as censorship, mandatory for all countries of the European Union within two years if adopted. |
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| − | ===Indonesia=== |
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| − | On April 1, 2008, Indonesian information minister Muhammad Nuh asked YouTube to remove Fitna, a controversial film made by Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders. The government allowed two days for the removal of the video or if the video wasn't removed, then YouTube would be blocked in Indonesia. |
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| − | On April 4, following YouTube's failure to remove the video, Nuh asked all Internet service providers to block access to YouTube temporary. |
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| − | On April 5, YouTube was briefly blocked for testing by one ISP in Indonesia. |
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| − | On April 8, YouTube, along with MySpace, Metacafe, RapidShare, Multiply, LiveLeak, and Fitna's official site, was blocked in Indonesia on all ISPs. The blocking of YouTube was subsequently lifted on April 10. |
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| − | There may still have been some blocking in May 2008 according to local Indonesian inhabitants. |
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| − | ===Libya=== |
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| − | Libya permanently blocked YouTube on January 24, 2010 after it featured videos of demonstrations in the Libyan city of Benghazi by families of detainees who were killed in Abu Salim prison in 1996, as well as videos of family members of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi at parties. The ban was condemned by Human Rights Watch. In November 2011, after the Libyan Civil War, YouTube was once again allowed in Libya, but it did not launch a local version of the site until in early 2015, making it lifted and unblocked. |
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| − | ===Malaysia=== |
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| − | In May 2013, videos critical of the Malaysian government were blocked from YouTube in Malaysia despite the government's promises not to censor the internet in Malaysia. Analysis of the network traffic shows that the ISPs were scanning the headers of the users and actively blocking requests to the YouTube video according to the video key. |
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| − | ===Morocco=== |
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| − | On May 25, 2007, Maroc Telecom ISP blocked access to YouTube, but no reasons why YouTube was blocked in Morocco, but speculations were that it may have been due to videos posted by the pro-separatist Polisario, Western Sahara's independence movement, or due to videos criticizing King Mohammed VI. The ban did not affect the other two ISPs in the country, Wana (now Inwi) and Méditel (now Orange Maroc). The blocking of YouTube on Maroc Telecom was lifted and unblocked on May 30, 2007, after Maroc Telecom unofficially announced that the denied access to the website was a mere as a "technical glitch". |
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| − | ===Pakistan=== |
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| − | In February 2008, YouTube was blocked by Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA), due of having allegedly because of "blasphemous" videos of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. However, the PTA's block inadvertently knocked out access to YouTube worldwide for two hours on February 25, 2008. YouTube was unblocked on February 27, 2008, after the allegedly blasphemous videos were removed. |
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| − | It was blocked once again on May 27, 2010, during the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, due of having in a bid to contain "blasphemous" material. The ban was lifted and unbloxked on May 27, 2010, after the website removed the objectionable content from its servers at the request of the government. However, individual videos deemed offensive to Muslims that are posted on YouTube will continue to be blocked in Pakistan. |
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| − | It was blocked for the third time on September 17, 2012, after the website failed to remove to controversial trailer for the movie Innocence of Muslims, and eventually resulting in a ban due to YouTube's noncompliance. |
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| − | On December 11, 2013, PTA asked Google to launch a Pakistani local version of YouTube. However, it would only be offered after the Pakistani government fulfilled some of the undisclosed requirements. |
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| − | During the ban a video was released called "Kholo BC" by rappers Adil Omar and Ali Gul Pir opposing the ban.[56] The video went viral and thousands of people supported that the ban is due to political interest.[55] |
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| − | On April 21, 2014, Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights approved a resolution to lift and unblock the ban on YouTube. |
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| − | On May 6, 2014, the National Assembly unanimously adopted a non-binding resolution to lift and unblock the ban, but as of August 2, 2014 it was still in effect. The ban was lifted due to a technical glitch on December 6, 2015, according to ISPs in Pakistan. |
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| − | As of January 18, 2016, the ban has been officially lifted and unblocked, as YouTube has launched a local version of the site for Pakistan. |
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| − | On November 25, 2017, the NetBlocks internet measurement platform and Digital Rights Foundation collected evidence of nation-wide blocking of YouTube alongside other social media services, imposed by the government in response to the violent Tehreek-e-Labaik protests. The technical investigation found that many, but not all, major Pakistani fixed-line and mobile service providers implemented the YouTube restriction which was lifted by the PTA the following day when protests abated after the resignation of Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid. |
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Latest revision as of 06:02, 23 October 2023
YouTube is the most visited online video-sharing website in the world. It was blocked in many countries due of many reasons. It is currently blocked in mainland Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan. It is the second most-visited website in the world.
Countries that have blocked access to YouTube[]
- Afghanistan (12 September - 1 December 2012 due to Innocence of Muslims)
- Armenia (8 March - 8 April 2008)
- Bangladesh (9-21 March 2009; 17 September 2012 - 5 June 2013 due to Innocence of Muslims)
- Brazil (6-9 January 2007)
- China (October 16, 2007 - March 22, 2008; March 24, 2009 - October 22, 2023;
- October 23, 2023 - present, but it was later unblocked later that day)
- Denmark (Music on YouTube in Denmark was blocked in July 2020 - present) due to copyright claims by KODA.
- Finland (Music videos were blocked in Finland on 30 November 2017, but it was later unblocked later that day)
- Germany (Music videos were blocked in Germany on 31 March 2009 - 31 October 2016)
- Indonesia (5-10 April; May 2008)
- Libya (24 January 2010 - November 2011)
- Malaysia (Videos about the criticism of the Malaysian government were blocked in Malaysia in May 2013)
- Morocco (25-30 May 2007)
- North Korea (April 4, 2016 - present)
- Pakistan (25-27 February 2008; 20-27 May 2010; 17 September 2012 - 6 December 2015 due to Innocence of Muslims)
- Sudan (2008; 21 April 2010; 17 September 2012 due to Innocence of Muslims)
- Tajikistan (July 2012; 2013 - 2019)
- Thailand (2006; 8-10 March 2007; 3 April - 30 August 2007)
- Any video prejudicial to Thai royalty is blocked.
- Tunisia (2007 - 18 December 2010)
- Türkiye (6-9 March 2007; 5 May 2008 - 30 October 2010; March 27 - May 29, 2014; June 1, 2014; April 6, 2015; 23-25 December 2016)
- United Arab Emirates (August - October 2006)
- Uzbekistan (15 October 2018)
- Venezuela (January 21, 2019; February 22, 2019; February 23, 2019; March 6, 2019; April 15, 2019; November 16, 2019)
Countries that have restricted access to YouTube[]
- Eritrea (2011 - present)
- Iran (December 3, 2006 - June 12, 2009; September 24, 2012 - January 17, 2016 due to Innocence of Muslims; January 20, 2016 - present, but it is unblocked on schools and universities for educational purposes in Iran starting from August 2017)
- Russia (28 July - August 2010; 2022 due to the war with Ukraine)
- South Sudan (2012 - present)
- Turkmenistan (25 December 2009 - present)
Content guidelines[]
Sensitive content[]
Examples of violating YouTube policies that can give YouTubers an age-restriction, strike, or a ban, include videos that may include nudity/sexual content, inappropriate thumbnails, harm to children, graphically depicted/promoted suicide, and highly vulgar language. More info on these guidelines can be found here.
Demonetization[]
Advertiser-friendly content guidelines have caused popular YouTubers who want to earn money from ads to self-censor suggestive elements of their videos to avoid demonetization. Content that are considered not advertiser-friendly include, but not limited to, inappropriate language, violence, adult content, and shocking content, along with more recent topics not yet added to guidelines including usage of copyrighted content and recent controversial issues such as COVID-19. The full list of guidelines can be found here.
External links[]
- Policies overview at YouTube
- Countries that have blocked YouTube at Wikitubia: The YouTube Wiki
- Censorship of YouTube at Wikipedia