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As you may know, I am currently in Morocco for my internship in a publishing company.

While surfing on the web yesterday, I got amazed by the breakdown of Youtube servers. For the very first time since I know this site, not a single Youtube videoclip was working (neither embedded videos, nor those on YouTube website). As a customer-care maniac, I was quite upset by this. I tried Dailymotion (which was perfectly working), but unfortunately, the videoclip I was looking for was not available on it.

Investigating the web for more information about this, I learnt that YouTube had been blocked by my ISP. Only Maroc Telecom (the historic telephone operating company in Morocco, subsidiary of Vivendi) customers were concerned, the two other ISPs kept granting access to the website and its videoclips . Resistance against this was organizing, many websites linking to proxies to access YouTube. The buzz around this case was so high (crossing borders to France), that Maroc Telecom brought back access to the website yesterday evening.

To protest against censorship, I show you the dissident video I was looking for, another excellent live performance of Ben Folds (during the concert he gave broadcasted live on his MySpace page):
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9qa_c-UYSs]

Tags: Censorship, Morroco, Youtube

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