YouTube Censored: A Recent History

By: Ellery Biddle on 28 June 2010
Posted in ONI, Internet tools filtering

ONI invites visitors to check out our newest social media map: a four-year history of YouTube censorship around the world. As one of the world’s most popular websites, YouTube has become a hugely popular venue for social media, and a powerful tool for political activism and civic engagement. Over the last four years, videos that uncover political scandal, spark social unrest, and elicit copyright infringement allegations have caused governments in five continents to block YouTube. Take a look to learn more.

You can also visit ONI's a social media map that shows cumulative ONI testing results for global filtering of Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Twitter, and YouTube.