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The Sudanese authorities blocked YouTube on April 21, 2010, following the 2010 presidential election, and also blocked YouTube's owner Google. The block was in response to a YouTube video appearing to show National Electoral Commission workers in official uniforms and a child in the Hamashkoreib region filling out voting strips and putting them ...
If you are running an anonymizing proxy or Tor, you should consider checking the configuration to make sure it is accurate. Sometimes the configuration is changed without your knowledge, sometimes by malware. Otherwise, if you have a legitimate reason to use a VPN or anonymizing proxy, you may request IP block exemption. It will only be granted ...
The workarounds listed here may also work (YMMV) in cases where your country has blocked access to a particular site. Check if the Wayback Machine has archived the link, and if so, view it there. Use a free proxy website located in a country that isn't blocked.
The CGI proxy server pulls the ultimate destination information from the data embedded in the HTTP request, sends out its own HTTP request to the ultimate destination, and then returns the result to the proxy client. A CGI proxy tool's security can be trusted as far as the operator of the proxy server can be trusted.
Pakistan, an Islamic republic, ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies." [31] The action effectively blocked YouTube access worldwide for several hours on 24 February. [32] Defaming Muhammad under § 295-C of the Blasphemy law in Pakistan requires a death sentence. [33]
Online video platforms allow users to upload, share videos or live stream their own videos to the Internet. These can either be for the general public to watch, or particular users on a shared network. The most popular video hosting website is YouTube, 2 billion active until October 2020 and the most extensive catalog of online videos. [1]
In some countries, YouTube is blocked for more limited periods of time such as during periods of unrest, the run-up to an election, or in response to upcoming political anniversaries. In cases where the entire site is banned due to one particular video, YouTube will often agree to remove or limit access to that video in order to restore service.
Freegate is a software application developed by Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) that enables internet users to view websites blocked by their governments. The program takes advantage of a range of proxy servers called Dynaweb. This allows users to bypass Internet firewalls that block web sites by using DIT's Peer-to-peer (P2P)-like proxy ...