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| YouTube, Inc. | |
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| Type | Subsidiary of Google (YouTube is owned by Google) |
| Founded | February 15, 2005 |
| Headquarters | San Bruno, California, U.S.  |
| Key people | Chad Hurley, Founder & CEO Steve Chen, Founder & CTO Jawed Karim, Founder & Advisor |
| Owner | |
| Employees | 67 (2006) |
| Website | www.youtube.com (English only) |
YouTube is a free video sharing website that lets people upload, view, and share videos. Videos can be rated, and the number of times a video has been watched can also be put on the site. At the moment, Google (a search engine) owns the rights to YouTube. Many different types of videos can be put onto the website. YouTube was made in February 2005 by three former workers of PayPal.[1]
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[change] Banning
Youtube has been blocked from many schools because of inappropriateness.[source?]
[change] Iran
On December 3, 2006, government of Iran blocked YouTube and several other sites in an attempt to stop films and music from other countries from being seen.[2]
[change] Turkey
Turkey blocked YouTube on March 6 2007 for letting videos that were mean to Turks and Atatürk, who is the founder of modern Turkey, to be shown, because of a "virtual war" between Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and Turks on YouTube, with people from each side posting videos to hurt the other.[3] The video that caused banning alleged Turks and Atatürk to be 'gay'. The video was first mentioned on Turkish CNN and the Istanbul public prosecutor sued YouTube for being mean to Turkishness.[4] The court suspended access to YouTube while waiting for the removal of the video. The ban was strongly criticized. YouTube lawyers sent documentary of removal to court and users could access the website again on March 9 2007.[5]
[change] Thailand
During the week of March 8, YouTube was blocked in Thailand.[6] Many bloggers (people who have a "diary" online) believed the reason YouTube was blocked was because of a video of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's speech on CNN. However, the government did not confirm or give reasons for the ban. YouTube was accessible from March 10.
On the night of April 3, YouTube was again blocked in Thailand.[7] The government said it was because of a video on the site that it said was "insulting" to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.[8]. The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology claimed that it would unblock YouTube in a few days, after websites containing references to this video are blocked instead of the entire website.[9] Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said, "When they decide to withdraw the clip, we will withdraw the ban."[10] Soon after this incident the internet technology blog Mashable was banned from Thailand over the reporting of the YouTube clips in question. [11]
[change] Brazilian model lawsuit and banning that came after
YouTube is being sued by Brazilian model and MTV VJ Daniela Cicarelli (better known as Ronaldo's ex-fiancée) on the grounds that the site is making available a video footage made by a paparazzo, in which she and her boyfriend are having sex on a Spanish beach. The lawsuit says that YouTube has to be blocked in Brazil until all copies of the video are removed. On Saturday, January 6, 2007, a legal injunction ordered that filters be put in place to prevent users in Brazil from going to the website.[12][13]
The effectiveness of the measure has been questioned, since the video is not available only on YouTube, but rather has become an Internet phenomenon. On Tuesday, January 9, 2007, the same court overturned their earlier decision, ordering the filters to be taken down, even though the footage was still forbidden, but without technical support for its blockage.[14]
[change] Morocco
On May 25, 2007 the state-owned company Maroc Telecom blocked all access to YouTube.[15] There were no reasons given why YouTube was blocked. But the guesses are that it might have something to do with some pro-separatist group Polisario clips (Polisario is the Western Sahara independence movement) or because of some videos that criticized King Mohammed VI. This block did not concern the other two private internet-providers, Wana and Meditel. YouTube became accessible again on May 30th, 2007 after Maroc Telecom unofficially announced that the denied access to the website was only a "technical glitch".[16]
[change] Australia
In Australia, some schools, including all secondary schools in Victoria, have YouTube blocked from student access, after fights have been posted on YouTube.
[change] Terms of service
According the site's terms of service[17], users may upload videos only if they have the permission of the copyright holder and of the people in the video. Pornography, defamation, harassment, commercials and videos that encourage criminal conduct may not be uploaded. The uploader gives YouTube permission to give out and change the uploaded video for any purpose, and they do not have permission anymore when the uploader deletes the video from the site. Users may view videos on the site but are not allowed to save them on their computers.
[change] References
- ↑ "YouTube aims to show music videos". BBC. 2006-08-16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4798133.stm.
- ↑ "Censorship fears rise as Iran blocks access to top websites". November 4, 2006. http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1963166,00.html. Retrieved 2006-12-17.
- ↑ "Turkey pulls plug on YouTube over Ataturk 'insults'". March 7, 2007. http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,2028543,00.html. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
- ↑ "Turkey bans YouTube". March 8, 2007. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960760.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
- ↑ "Turkey revokes YouTube ban". March 9, 2007. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Turkey-revokes-YouTube-ban/2007/03/10/1173167025391.html. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
- ↑ "YouTube seems blocked in Thailand 2bangkok.com". March 10, 2007. http://www.2bangkok.com/blockedyoutube.shtml. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
- ↑ "YouTube Blocked Again". April 04, 2007. http://facthai.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/youtube-blocked-again/. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
- ↑ "For some users, YouTube disappears". April 04, 2007. http://www.bangkokpost.co.th/topstories/topstories.php?id=117871. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
- ↑ "YouTube to help block web access to pages insulting King". April 07. http://bangkokpost.com/News/07Apr2007_news03.php.
- ↑ "Whose Tube?". The Economist: pp. 71. 2004-04-14. http://economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_JDTPVRG. Retrieved 2007-04-16.
- ↑ Cashmore, Pete (2004-04-18). "Mashable.com Banned in Thailand". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2007/04/18/mashablecom-banned-in-thailand/.
- ↑ http://www.totalsecurity.com.br/article.php?sid=2768&order=0
- ↑ http://www.radiofandango.com.br/archive/valor.php?noticia=3720
- ↑ http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI1337815-EI4802,00.html
- ↑ "Morocco blocks access to YouTube". globalvoicesonline.org. http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/26/morocco-blocks-access-to-youtube/. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
- ↑ "YouTube again accessible via Maroc Telecom". rsf.org. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22322. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- ↑ YouTube Terms of Use, accessed 5 May 2007
[change] Other websites
- YouTube.com
- YouTube mobile site
- YouTube Blog
- YouTube founders comment on the Google.com acquisition of YouTube
- YouTube Downloader & Searcher
- Youtube Headquarters Pictures
