Utube video clips have been blocked in several countries since its inception, including Tunisia, Thailand (which has since been lifted) and Iran. Certain video clip pages were banned as of October 1, 2007 in Turkey, but this was lifted two days later. More recently on January 22, 2008 Turkey banned U Tube once again but this ban was lifted after three days. Certain pages are also banned in United Arab Emirates.
During February , 2008, the country of Pakistan blocked daily uTube today due to "offensive material" towards the way of faith, including displaying pictures of a figure. This action by the Pakistani authorities led to a near global blackout of the uTube site for at least two hours. Thousands of then undermined the 3-day block using software called Hotspot Shield.
The uTube videos ban was lifted on February 26, 2008 after the "offensive material" was removed from the site.
Schools in certain countries have begun to block access to UK Utube due to students uploading videos of bullying behaviour, Youths fighting and video games like behaviour as well as increased bandwidth usage and other inappropriate content.
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