YouTube Site Returns to Morocco
Posted on: Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 06:00 CDT
RABAT, Morocco - Moroccans were able to access the video sharing Web site YouTube on Wednesday for the first time since access was blocked last week.
The site's disappearance provoked a storm of debate on Morocco's blogs, with Internet users voicing fears that it signaled a further rollback of media freedoms that the country began regaining after the accession of King Mohamed VI in 1999.
Morocco's communications minister would not comment on YouTube's absence.
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, a desert territory Morocco has occupied since 1975.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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