Congratulations. You've managed to watch a video on Youtube you must be one of the many countries where youtube is totally legal?
I'm happy for you, but there are some countries out there where Youtube is as
illegal as illegal can get. I do hope none of you are watching this video from one of the top ten countries that banned
YouTube. Coming at number 10, we have Brazil. In
2007 YouTube was banned for every Brazilian because of a sex video YouTube was sued by
Brazilian Model Daniela C Cirelli
Ex-Fiance a footballer Ronaldo for hosting a video of the couple having sex on a beach although this video was not
explicit, a filter was put on preventing access to YouTube for
everyone there. It didn't take too long though for the same court to realize how ridiculous that was.
Especially as it was on every other website and the ban was overturned.
Coming at number 9 now we have India on February 22nd
2008 when Youtube was less than three years old it was banned in India for all
1.1 billion people the reason was because the India
telecommunication Authority said that Youtube was hosting a number of non islamic
objectionable videos and the main one was fitna a short film by Dutch politician gert wilders that claimed that the Muslim holy book was
Motivating hate in its followers there were a tense few days of follow
But the Banner was eventually lifted after Youtube agreed to take down the video next up at number 8 now
We have gabon in 2016 the West African nation of Gabon Saw Mass protests after a close and controversial
Election when the riots broke out the major internet companies
There cut off internet access for the entire country. When that didn't calm things down the government banned
YouTube 9 days later the thing is they didn't really do a very effective ban and anyone in Gabon can still access youtube if they just
Work around it if any of you guys are watching from Gabon
Hello, you tech-Savvy beauties, Moving on to number 7 now we have Turkey. turkey and youtube have a rough
Relationship to say the least this is totally true in 2007 the government banned YouTube because of a comment war
I'm not kidding greek armenian and turkish Youtubers got into a huge online fight insulting and defending the founder of Modern turkey
Mustafa Kemal atatürk YouTube was sued for
Insulting turkishness over the 10 years that followed youtube was banned in turkey and then unbanned over and over again for many different reasons
One time it was taken down because there was a video of the turkish spy chief
discussing military plans for attacking syrian Jihadist
It's a hard place to live if you just want to watch cat videos at number six now
We have in Youtube's early years
It was always banned in Iran a country known for its strict internet censorship at the 2009 presidential
Election there the YouTube block was lifted in order to warm down
Young people in the country not very sure that means it was all going well for three years
but then in 2012 it was blocked again when YouTube hosted the trailer for a movie called the innocence of
Muslims Iran didn't like its
Anti-Muslim
nature and YouTube has been officially banned there ever since although it's thought that this ban may be gone again in a few years At
Number 5 now We have North Korea
This one should come as no surprise
The North Korean government tries to control all of the information its people get and Youtube is like their worst nightmare
they banned it along with Twitter and Facebook in 2016 in a move which confuse a lot of people because
Most North Koreans don't have access to the internet
And they probably never even heard of YouTube however the North Korean government
Isn't really known for making a whole lot of sense and the ban has stayed ever since moving on to number four now
We have Libya in 2010 the libyan dictator colonel Gaddafi banned Youtube the reason was because there were videos of families
Protesting about their loved ones who were killed in prisons under his rule there were also videos of his own family members
Having fun at parties because of this he banned the whole of YouTube across Libya after the civil war there which resulted in his death
YouTube was finally reinstated coming in at number 3 now we have to Sudan the sudanese government blocked YouTube in
2010 and even its owner google because of one single video it was a video showing
Electoral workers during the election filling out voting strips and putting them into ballot boxes. That's right
They were there to make sure the election was fair, and they got caught literally faking votes. They say honesty is the best policy well
Blocking an entire website for millions of people might also be the best policy who knows at number two now
we have
Thailand some of you guys might be aware of how
Thailand has very strict laws controlling what you can or can't say about their king you can end up in prison
if you speak negatively of him well in 2007
Thailand blocked the whole of YouTube because of some videos they said that were insulting to the king this went on for
Months until finally YouTube agreed to block the offending videos some people said this was good and respectful
But others said this was youtube legitimizing a harsh law. What do you guys think and finally at number one now
We have China there are about 1.4 billion people in China
That's more people than use youtube in the rest of the world
But none of them can officially access youtube this all comes down to their strict internet Censorship laws the Chinese government likes to control all
forms of media there and YouTube would have made that very difficult
So the whole website has been banned pretty much since it was founded even if a person there does manage to access YouTube through some
Sort of Proxy the government monitors their every move online this policy has led some people to call this the great firewall of China
I like it pretty clever name well guys do you think China will ever allow YouTube maybe I'll do a top 10 video in
Mandarin if that ever happens until then let me know what you want to see next on the channel. I am danny burke
Thanks for watching as always and I'll see you all in the next video