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The government allowed two days for the removal of the video or YouTube would be blocked in the country. [44] On April 4, following YouTube's failure to remove the video, Nuh asked all Internet service providers to block access to YouTube. [45] On April 5, YouTube was briefly blocked for testing by one ISP. [46]
Other child-centric videos originally uploaded to YouTube began propagating on the dark web, and uploaded or embedded onto forums known to be used by pedophiles. [113] As a result of the controversy, which added to the concern about "Elsagate", several major advertisers whose ads had been running against such videos froze spending on YouTube.
YouTube started treating all videos designated as "made for kids" as liable under COPPA on January 6, 2020, [22] resulted in some videos that contain drugs, profanity, sexual content, and violence, along side some age-restricted videos, also being affected, [23] despite YouTube claiming that such content is "likely not made for kids". [24]
Chinese Firewall Test - Instantly test if a URL is blocked by the Great Firewall of China in real time. Tests for both symptoms of DNS poisoning and HTTP blocking from a number of locations within mainland China.
YouTube has announced it is taking action against Russian state-owned broadcaster RT after access to Twitter was restricted in the country amid the invasion of Ukraine.
Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
For example, if you have a 56kbs dial-up connection to the internet, you will be able to watch videos with a bit rate of 56kbs or less. (A majority of dial-up connections have speeds of 28kbs or less because of issues with the phone lines). If you try to watch a video clip with a bit rate of 300kbs over a dial-up connection, the video will not ...
In addition, videos showing homemade guns, automatic weapons and certain firearm accessories like silencers will be restricted to users 18 and older. YouTube toughens policy on gun videos and ...