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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. Re:Profit! by calmofthestorm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All governments have the same reason to censor, be it US, UK, or any other country. From their perspective, when is control of information ever a bad thing?

    What varies is the thing they wave around to make people swoon. Terrorism, child porn, offense to Islam, Holocaust denial, etc.

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  2. Re:Islamic Censorship strikes again by mr100percent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not islamic. Kuwait is a dictatorship. Other more Islamic countries haven't blocked youtube.

  3. Re:That what you get in a theocracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Kuwait is not a theocracy, it is a dictatorship ruled by a hereditary monarch. If the head clergy of Kuwait denounces the monarch and calls him an apostate, it is the head clergy who will find himself in jail. Same thing in Saudi Arabia.

    On the other hand, Iran is a theocracy. If the head clergy of Iran denonces Ahmadinejad and calls him an apostate, it is Ahmadinejad who will be thrown in jail.

    You need to learn more about the many variants of Islam-o-nuts.