YouTube was reportedly on the verge of being banned in Russia!!!
Wednesday YouTube was briefly placed on the blacklist with webpages banned in Russia provoking strong reactions on the internet, but authorities quickly denied the information, citing a “technical error”.
At 16.30 local time (12.30 GMT), Youtube.com was seen as a site containing information prohibited by law in the Federal Register which governs the activity of web pages, reported France Presse.
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The head of the service Gennady Onishchenko wanted to clarify the situation claiming that not the entire site was blacklisted but only certain pages, especially those with videos featuring suicide scenes.
Contacted by AFP, Vladimir Pikovit, a representative of the Russian Agency for media monitoring “Roskomnadzor” which manages the registry, reported also a ‘technical error’.
At around 17.00 local (13.00 GMT), YouTube was no longer on Russia’s blacklist.
Even after the death of the American ambassador in Libya, YouTube refuses to remove “Innocence of Muslims”, the film that sparked Muslim anger around the world (scroll down for video). Youtube does not remove "Innocence of Muslims". THe video sharing website banned the controversial movie in Egypt and Libya. Photo:YouTubeInstead, the company executives blocked the access to this controversial film in Libya and Egypt, where most violent protests occurred.
Cairo protesters attacked the U.S. Embassy where the American flag was torn down and replaced with an Islamic flag and the riots progressed to harsh violence in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador John Christopher “Chris” Stevens and three other U.S. diplomats were killed.
The wave of anger swept rapidly through other Muslim countries. In Tunisia, police managed to disperse temporarily the demonstrators. In Yemen and Egypt, U.S. embassies are still under the assault of the violent protesters. Police in these countries have resorted to gunfire to crack down on the crowd, in a desperate attempt to bring security around the diplomatic stations.
The 5 million dollar “anti-islam” amateur film, outrageously depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a homosexual and advocate of pedophilia, and these facts come in strong contradiction to Islamic religion which is extremely sensitive to any negative remarks about the Prophet.
YouTube Management told AP that will maintain the environment in which all opinions can be expressed.
“It can be challenging that what is OK in a country represents something offensive in another. This video which is still available on the Internet, complies with our policy of free expression, therefore we will not remove it. Anyway, given the difficult situations that ignited in Libya and Egypt, we temporarily restricted access (to the film) in these two countries. Our souls are with the bereaved families after the events in Benghazi,” reads YouTube official statement.
The film in question was posted on the Internet in early July, by user Sam Bacile who is also a film director. For two months, did not cause any major concern, but after being translated into Arabic a few days ago, and presented by Egyptian television, it triggered the extreme irritation of Muslims.
Director and producer of this film is the Israeli-born American citizen Sam Bacile. Despite the recent tragic events, Bacile still keeps his opinion about Islam in a brief statement: “Islam is a cancer!”
