Youtube Banned Coutries

YouTube Banned or Restricted Countries

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Many countries seek to try and ban or restrict access to users, usually because of political or content sensitivity issues. YouTube have in the past restricted people from specific countries to certain music videos, such as in 2009, when YouTube blocked access to premium content music to UK users, after failing to secure a revenue sharing agreement with the Performing Rights Society, discussed in detail later.

Commercial agreements aside, the majority of countries blocking YouTube do so for political censorship and to prevent online discussion and disemmination of content that is critical of their regimes.

For me there are two iconic videos that are symbolic of the power of YouTube to political activism. The first is the heroic effort of a student in Tiananmen Square to stop a chinese tank by standing in front to it, which has been viewed over 1.6 m times; shown below:

Student blocks chinese tank

The other iconic videos are of Iranian students, brutally shot after street protests in 2009. Due to the graphic nature of these videos, we aren't showing them here, rather giving this link.

Needless to say if you can't see any of the above videos, then it's very likely that YouTube is blocked in your country for some reason.

Below we give a list of countries where YouTube access is, or has been restricted, either due to government censorship or because YouTube itself has failed to agree advertising revenue with content publishers.

Flag	Country	Blocking	Short discussion
	Bangladesh	Full block	Introduced in 2009 after a soldier's mutiny when the governemnt was shown to be negotiating with the mutineers on YouTube. More here.
	China	Full block	Despite allowing YouTube to set up in China, the government have regularly imposed blankets bans and selected bans on YouTube content. More here.
	Turkey	Periodic full bans on YouTube	First started in 2007 after a flame war saw videos posted that alleged Turkey's founding father, Ataturk, was a homosexual. More here.
	UK	Restrictions on some content	Six month period of restrictions on some premier music content after a dispute between YouTube and the UK's performing rights society. More here.