Saturday, January 6, 2007
Brazil blocks YouTube after court decision on sex videoFollowing up on an earlier BoingBoing post about a court decision in Brazil to "shut down" YouTube over an unathorized celebrity sex video (links to the video file here), Bruno Maestrini says:
Janio Sarmento says,Brasil Telecom, a popular ISP in Brazil has already banned user access to youtube.com. As far as I know all other ISPs are still normal.
I, as a journalist, have tried to reach Brasil Telecom without any success. The only way I got to talk to them was through customer support, and they told me that the problem was with the company that authenticates my login. That sounds stupid. I have interviewed people from all around Brazil using BrT and none of them could access YouTube, except with a foreign proxy.
Here's a story about how ADSL users from BrT are now prevented from accessing YouTube. BrasilTelecom is one of the major phone companies and bandwidth providers, and they just blocked YouTube, without a single word for the customers.Previously on BB:
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Brasil Telecom, a popular ISP in Brazil has already banned user access to youtube.com. As far as I know all other ISPs are still normal.








