Countries:
Morocco
Topics:
Freedom of Speech, Politics

Yesterday, May 25, 2007, it has been reported by numerous Moroccan blogger that Morocco has blocked access to YouTube video sharing website. There have been many ongoing speculations that the ban followed the broadcasting of material critical of the country's king and pro-Western Sahara. This is the third major sites blocked by the Moroccan filtering regime after Google Earth and Livejournal.

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  • Pingback: YouTube in Marokko geblockt » Suchmaschinen Blog

    [...] bzw. kritische YouTube Videos über den König von Marokko, ein Grund für die Sperrung sein [...]

    # 2007-05-29 at 0:14 am

  • Pingback: Morocco: ban on YouTube lifted at Global Voices Advocacy

    [...] petition has been launched by Maghrebism to protest the block of the video-sharing site Youtube by Maroc Telecom (Vivendi International). “We demand that Maroc Telecom and Vivendi Universal immediately stop the [...]

    # 2007-05-30 at 12:33 pm

  • kate

    plse explain i log on to u tube daily so enough of this bs

    # 2007-07-12 at 12:05 pm
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  • oakweb

    More services like http://www.strongvpn.com will pop up as users try to get a outside handle on governmental controls.

    There’s really no way to block sites, I don’t know why they try.

    # 2007-08-19 at 22:36 pm
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  • MUSTAPHA

    Hi Guys

    Could you please get your facts together before writing any thing. as it is very dangerous to start guessing about things………………

    # 2007-10-5 at 14:58 pm
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  • Morocco Travel

    This is not true

    # 2008-02-27 at 8:42 am
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  • John

    Hi just to leyt you all know that it was blocked they do want anyone to see what is going on………in Morocco

    # 2009-02-3 at 19:20 pm
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