{"id":2150,"date":"2007-05-28T08:16:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T08:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2007-05-28T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T08:16:10","slug":"2007-5-28-youtube-blocked-in-morocco-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2150","title":{"rendered":"YouTube blocked in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Why is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lailalalami.com\/blog\/archives\/004726.html\">YouTube blocked<\/a> in Morocco? I remember seeing some nice historical archive of Hassan II on there, but nothing too compromising on King Muhammad VI. That&#8217;s the only political reason I could think of, as well the many critical videos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_query=western+sahara&amp;search=Search\">Western Sahara<\/a>. If YouTube is indeed being blocking by Morocco&#8217;s main ISP, the very corrupt Maroc Telecom, for political reasons there are grounds to take things further. Maroc Telecom&#8217;s main shareholder is the French mega-corporation Vivendi. Surely newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who made a big deal of supporting freedom and democracy in his victory speech, would be rather embarrassed to learn that a French company is collaborating in censorship? This is worth looking into.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lailalalami.com\/blog\/archives\/004730.html\">unblocked<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Why is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lailalalami.com\/blog\/archives\/004726.html\">YouTube blocked<\/a> in Morocco? I remember seeing some nice historical archive of Hassan II on there, but nothing too compromising on King Muhammad VI. That&#8217;s the only political reason I could think of, as well the many critical videos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_query=western+sahara&amp;search=Search\">Western Sahara<\/a>. If YouTube is indeed being blocking by Morocco&#8217;s main ISP, the very corrupt Maroc Telecom, for political reasons there are grounds to take things further. Maroc Telecom&#8217;s main shareholder is the French mega-corporation Vivendi. Surely newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who made a big deal of supporting freedom and democracy in his victory speech, would be rather embarrassed to learn that a French company is collaborating in censorship? This is worth looking into.<br \/>\n<strong>Update: <\/strong>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lailalalami.com\/blog\/archives\/004730.html\">unblocked<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[34,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}