Gatherr - Countries With Partial Bans And Threats Against YouTube

Pronounced "Gatherer", but, hey, it's web 2.0 and we leave the last
"e" out right? Gatherr collects the best of this and that from here and
there on the web for no other reason than sharing. It's about stuff
that seemed interesting at the time. Enjoy.

ABOUT

My
name is Tony Johansen. I am an artist. I like art and science and
poetry and books and history and technology and lots more besides.
Every day I am excited by the marvelous things I see in this wonderful
world and beyond. I love the Internet for giving me access to so much.
I am like a sponge for wondrous things or things that make me wonder. This site is really just a
scrapbook. Being on the web, however, means being able to share the
treasures I find. That's me, Tony Johansen, artist who likes to share
my excitement of being alive.

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LINKS

Diary Of An Artist
Studio life of an artist trying to survive in a new technological world.
TonyJohansen.com
My main site, all about my work.
PaintMaking.com
All about making artists paints, pigments, historic colors, safety information and so on.
Go Figure

The story of a painting
Voice In My Head

The story of a portrait of Leo Sayer
Hens Night Ideas

Arty Party's to celebrate beautiful times

Po-mz

Wonderful poetry collected and shared by Tony Johansen

Countries With Partial Bans And Threats Against YouTube

AUSTRALIA

Australia needs to hang its head in shame. In a long list of repressive regimes and third world countries, Australia is the lone Western democracy to institute a ban on YouTube. True it is only partial, and restricted to a single state - Victoria - but in that state parents and schools have banned YouTube for school students. Like Iran, it appears they believe that Victorian students should be protected from “immorality” and time wasting. While students elsewhere are encouraged to creatively interact with the Internet, Victorian students are encouraged to be, well, Victorian.

IRAQ

YouTube is available to the citizens but US forces are not permitted to access it by order of the Pentagon. It seems too many soldiers were filming themselves doing naughty things. They used to say that truth is the first casualty of war. Now days it seems YouTube is the new first casualty.

CHINA

China likes to ban lots of things like Bjork’s songs, and Ben Hur, so why not YouTube? They have yet to do so despite threats but they did attempt to control access in Tibet during recent protests.

INDIA

India threatened to ban YouTube due to a video that criticized Ghandi