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Kuwait Issues Order To Block YouTube

Posted by timothy on from the singed-and-composed dept.

Bashar Abdullah writes "Kuwait Ministry of Communications have issued orders to all ISPs to block YouTube, after some offensive videos to Quran and prophet were posted there. YouTube is 15% of Kuwaiti traffic, ranked #3 on Alexa for Kuwait. Funny thing is, those videos they refer to have been removed and I can't reach them anymore."

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  1. Profit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Submit post about Kuwait blocking youtube.
    2. Misspell prophet
    3. ..
    4. Profit!

  2. hmm by Digitus1337 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny thing is, those videos they refer to have been removed and I can't reach them anymore

    Do you by any chance live in Kuwait?

  3. Re:Um... by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, to be fair, Kuwait is more about the profits than the prophet.

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  4. AlhamduliLlah by mapkinase · · Score: 2, Funny

    Positive decision.

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  5. Re:Um... by Valdrax · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, to be fair, Kuwait is more about the profits than the prophet.

    Thank God we fought so hard to keep like minded people from under the yoke of tyranny!
    USA! USA! USA!

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  6. Ministry of Communications???? by BinBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Kuwait Ministry of Communications have issued orders to all ISPs to block YouTube

    Anyone disobeying this order will be imprisoned by the Ministry of Freedom.

  7. Re:That what you get in a theocracy by Mesa+MIke · · Score: 2, Funny

    But Barack Obama's a Muslim, and he'll probably want to impose Sharia on all of us.