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Indonesia threatens to block YouTube over “Fitna” the movie

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 @ 16:45 UTC

by Sami Ben Gharbia

Countries:: Indonesia
Topics:: none

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বাংলা:	ইন্দোনেশিয়া ‘ফিতনা' স্বল্পদৈর্ঘ চলচিত্র হোস্ট করার জন্যে ইউটিউব ব্লক করতে চাচ্ছে...
македонски:	Индонезија се заканува со блокирање на ЈуТјуб поради филмот „Фитна“...

Indonesia is threatening to block Youtube unless the video-sharing web site removes the 15 minutes anti-Muslim film “Fitna” made by the Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV).

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[...] this week, Indonesia threatened to block Youtube unless the video-sharing web site removes the aforementioned [...]

# 2008-04-5 at 12:15 pm
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[...] this week, Indonesia had threatened to block YouTube unless the video-sharing web site removed the aforementioned [...]

# 2008-04-5 at 16:15 pm
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[...] hatte diese Woche bereits einmal angedroht, YouTube zu sperren, obwohl das Videoportal den genannten Film entfernt [...]

# 2008-04-6 at 16:12 pm
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[...] hatte diese Woche bereits einmal angedroht, YouTube zu sperren, obwohl das Videoportal den genannten Film entfernt [...]

# 2008-04-8 at 1:30 am

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