• Home
    • ▹
  • Morocco: Reporters Without Borders reports Maroc Telecom...
hide message

Welcome to the Resource Centre

We make it our mission to work with advocates in civil society, business and government to address inequalities of power, seek remedy for abuse, and ensure protection of people and planet.

Both companies and impacted communities thank us for the resources and support we provide.

This is only possible because of your support. Please make a donation today.

Thank you,
Phil Bloomer, Executive Director

Donate now hide message

Morocco: Reporters Without Borders reports Maroc Telecom blocked access to YouTube, possibly over videos of protests for independence of Western Sahara - now accessible again; Maroc Telecom says "technical problem" was responsible

Get RSS feed of these results

All components of this story

Article
30 May 2007

YouTube again accessible via Maroc Telecom

Author: Reporters Without Borders

The video-sharing site YouTube is again accessible after being blocked since 25 May. Moroccans using the state-owned Maroc Telecom as their Internet Service Provider had been deprived of YouTube since last week, but not those using the privately-owned ISPs Wana and Meditel... A Maroc Telecom spokesperson talked of a “technical problem” but videos parodying the monarchy or showing Sahrawi protesters may also have been the reason.

Read the full post here

Categories

Article
30 May 2007

YouTube site returns to Morocco

Author: Associated Press

Moroccans were able to access the video sharing Web site YouTube on Wednesday for the first time since access was blocked last week…Najib Omrani, a spokesman for the state-controlled telecommunications company Maroc Telecom, said Moroccans were unable to access YouTube due to a technical glitch, but could not explain its nature or why it affected only the YouTube site. Many Moroccans said government censors had been spooked by a spate of videos recently posted on YouTube purportedly showing Moroccan police beating and arresting activists from Western Sahara…

Read the full post here

Categories

Article
27 May 2007

Morocco: YouTube is Blocked, and the Blogoma is Not Happy

Author: Jillian York, Global Voices

Late Friday night, a Moroccan in Washington D.C. broke the news that YouTube had been blocked in Morocco... 'Au début était le blog'...expressed dismay over the censure:... "The YouTube site is quite simply censored in Morocco by Maroc Telecom, [51%-owned] subsidiary of the Vivendi multinational [Vivendi Universal]! You read correctly: censorship still occurs in Morocco."... Youssef at Maghrebism [a website, wrote:]..."Vivendi Universal has its own department of Sustainable Development, promoting dialogue and social responsibility. Clearly they don’t promote that through the block of a major website?"

Read the full post here

Categories

Categories