Committee to Protect Bloggers

Update: Wael’s account restored, without videos.
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Update: If another of the video hosting services wanted to score some serious points, they should offer to intercede with YouTube on Wael’s behalf, salvage his videos and rehost them on their service. They’d be doing justice a nice turn, as well as getting some good P.R. Please help us […]

Danwei reports today that YouTube is blocked in China and asks if it is due to the 17th Communist Party congress. Can anyone confirm or deny the block?

Search Engine Watch has a list of countries that have banned YouTube, including, oddly enough, Brazil.

Turkey’s blocked the Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube again, according to Agence France Presse (via MEY).
The decision followed a complaint by a resident in the eastern city of Sivas that the site hosted videos containing insults against Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the army, the Anatolia […]

Just as YouTube was unblocked in Thailand, we find out that Veoh and Metacafe are not so lucky (Asia Sentinel via GVA).
Again “videos deemed offensive to the royal family” were to blame, according to the Sentinel.

Veoh, a site similar to YouTube, was blocked earlier this month after a user posted a rrisque personal video […]

Oh, joy. YouTube is no longer blocked in Thailand (according to Bankok’s The Nation newspaper, via Mashable).
All YouTube had to do was agree to sacrifice any principals it might have had, or might in the future wish to tout, regarding free speech.
This follows an agreement between the Ministry of ICT and YouTube that […]

YouTube is blocked in Syria. Unlike Iran with Facebook, there is no question that it is an official ban-and-block by the Syrian government. According to Ammar Abdulhamid of Tharwa and Hamsa and a fellow at the Brookings Institution, the nature of the block is clear.
There is a report in Arabic on blocked sites that clearly […]