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YouTube Site Returns to Morocco
By: AP   |   May 31,2007
Moroccans were able to access the video-sharing 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 Google Inc.'s YouTube.

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.
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So what, there are still sites that they are blocking such as livejournal and google earth.
Tim @ Jun 01,2007
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