YouTube has been recently blocked in Brazil because of a local court ruling in Brazil. The site has been blocked because it could not keep sex videos of a Brazilian media star off their website.
(Information from SlashDot)
I think that YouTube is an awsome idea and a great site that allows people to display get their videos seen, but I think it is also a very dangerous site. I think that it shows freedom of expression at it's worst. It is not regulated very well and there are many people that upload inapropriate material on to the website. Does this mean that countries have the right to intercede and block a website to it's entire population because of one bad video that keeps being uploaded onto YouTube?
I think that the Brazilian government over stepped their bounds. It is very dangerous when governments start to block entire websites. I do not think that YouTube should be blocked to their entire population because of one bad incident. I do however think that YouTube needs to change how user's are able to upload videos onto their site so that inapropriate and copyrighted material is not available to the mass public. If YouTube is going to be fined a lot of money for inapropriate videos on their website, I think that YouTube needs to hold their user's accountable and fine the people that are dumb enough for uploading the inapropirate material.
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