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YouTube blocked by Etisalat

Posted: July 26th, 2006 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: UAE, Web2.0 | 40 Comments »

You tube is blocked in UAE

Well, not something new, but something very unpleasant. You log on to a site you enjoy watching cool videos and share them with friends and boom, it’s blocked by your ISP, Etisalat. Yea baby, YouTube is blocked!

Site BlockedOnce again the cool site has been blocked label on one of your favorite social sites. First Flickr, and now YouTube. I was about to send a link of a funny comedy stand up by Peter Russle to my fellow blogging friend on the IM, a second after that we’re both cursing and my friend already decided to leave the country. I’m just shut up, I honestly am giving up on the communal values of the Internet once again.

Once again, I understand that some of the YouTube content might be against the religious, cultural, and traditional values and might even be offensive. They do URL filtering, contextual filtering so, isn’t that enough?

This is insane. So unfair. What’s next? Google video? We already are blocked from accessing MySpace if you had no idea, it’s like cutting you off from all the Internet society values and services. We could always get around the blockage, but that’s just an unpleasant thing to do.

I’ll write them up and see how that REACH tagline is really applied. Just because we have only one ISP that means we’re locked up so do we really reach?

40 Comments on “YouTube blocked by Etisalat”

  1. 1 milad said at 2:06 am on July 30th, 2006:

    very sorry too. It sucks.

  2. 2 A.S said at 7:02 pm on July 31st, 2006:

    MY GOD! I AM REALLY MAD AT THIS REALLY!!!!!! I HAVE AN ACCOUNT THERE AND I HAVE FANS THAT WAITING TO SEE MY VIDEOS ……BUT ….BUT THOSE JERKS BLOCKED IT!!!! DAMN DAMND DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNNNNNNNN

    I dont care a sh** for flickr .. but youtube OH NO GOD!!!!!!…. there was a way to open flickr…do you know a way to open youtube ?? using the same thing????? PLZ IF YOU KNOW REPLY TO ME PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

    thanks.

  3. 3 dotone said at 7:14 pm on July 31st, 2006:

    I know, it sucks big time. I’ll e-mail you.

  4. 4 Deetox said at 3:31 am on August 2nd, 2006:

    My two bits on what i think about etisalats reach campaign..

    Etisalat. Reach out and kiss my A##!

  5. 5 dotone said at 1:21 am on August 3rd, 2006:

    How about a new tagline; Etisalat, Get Blocked! That goes well.

  6. 6 KZ said at 11:58 pm on August 5th, 2006:

    Can someone also tell me or email me how to do it please

  7. 7 jink said at 9:41 am on August 10th, 2006:

    Yes, I loved watching the vids of my favorite tv shows :’(

    Can someone please email me too?

  8. 8 i hate fvckin etisalat said at 12:59 am on August 14th, 2006:

    i haaaaaaaaaaaate them, they really annoy me with their religous/cultural sh!t, it’s 2006, their stupidity is getting out of control. if you go check out hi5.com it’s not blocked and that’s where ppl post porn photos on their profiles

  9. 9 Tamana Varma said at 10:31 pm on August 26th, 2006:

    Ahh… Com On.. Easy guys….
    Try This Out :-)

    http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=url

    replace [url] with the url you want to visit.

    example:

    http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=www.youtube.com

    it will work until etisalat will block google.com or all urls that starts with google.com/gwt.

    BTW- Congratulations etisalat !!!!

    you are pissing off more and more people…

  10. 10 csj said at 1:57 am on August 27th, 2006:

    LOL….ctrl+C ctrl+V Tamana

  11. 11 Tamana Varma said at 3:08 am on August 29th, 2006:

    yeahhh…CSJ ;-) thatz y i dint put my name at the end..hehehe…

    Tamana.

  12. 12 Fin Stawler said at 3:04 am on September 4th, 2006:

    Yeah..hopefully they lift hte ban. After You Tube was blocked www3.youtube.com use work. But jsut htis mornign when i got up and went to tht link, it was blocked too!

  13. 13 Tamana Varma said at 12:08 am on September 5th, 2006:

    Hey Guys….Iz time to forget youtube:-)

    Try Out This : http://www.dailymotion.com

    I hope u enjoy….Take Care!!!

    Tamana.

  14. 14 dotone said at 1:33 am on September 5th, 2006:

    Yo Tamana, that’s exactly the spirit we’re getting used to—searching for alternatives

  15. 15 google link rocks said at 8:53 am on September 5th, 2006:

    google link rocks if sum1 has other ways of opening blocked site pls lemme noe by email or in the forum :D

  16. 16 richard said at 4:40 am on September 13th, 2006:

    Its bloody bullcrap just as i got tubesock they block it kiss my a## etisalat

  17. 17 richard said at 1:36 am on September 16th, 2006:

    Ok THEY BLOCKED F###EN PICZO THIS IS CRAP F U U BLOODY BASTARDS

  18. 18 A.S said at 7:35 am on September 16th, 2006:

    Hello,
    very sorry to bug , but i waited for your e-mail forever :( you won’t help me anymore?

    cries

  19. 19 dotone said at 7:59 am on September 16th, 2006:

    I jus’ e-mailed you :) sorry for the delay.

  20. 20 browse at college said at 12:17 am on September 22nd, 2006:

    Simple. I use Browse at College (http://www.browseatcollege.com) at school to watch youtube. It can get past any filters or firewalls so you can go to any website you want. Hope it helps :)

  21. 21 Gillian said at 4:28 pm on September 23rd, 2006:

    Thank you Etisalat, you have NO REASON whatsoever to block this site!!

    please if someone knows how to unlock the proxy email me at missy_filan@hotmail.com

    F**king Etisalat

  22. 22 Sophie Northcott said at 8:33 am on October 9th, 2006:

    OMG! i no, theyve bascially blocked ANYTHING good at school, its sooo ANNOYING!!

    but think that college thing works so thanks for that!!!

  23. 23 chels said at 3:53 am on November 9th, 2006:

    theyve bloked evritin thats a lil bit gud like piczo and none ov these things help that websense bloks everythin helpppp :@:@

  24. 24 michael said at 1:19 am on November 30th, 2006:

    they blocked piczo and i need to edit ti big time grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  25. 25 caroline said at 9:00 am on December 27th, 2006:

    all the awsome websites are blocked!youtube,xanga,photobucket,putfile,animevangance,google videos,yahoo videos…shall i go on?

  26. 26 DUDETTE said at 2:56 am on January 9th, 2007:

    U know i’m really getting sick of this. Theres this really cool site, peekvid.com where u can watch all the tv shows u want, but it takes most of the shows from the vids on dailymotion.com. So here i am, enjoying myself wen etisalat BLOCKS dailymotion.com!!! NOW I CANT WATCH SHIT!! I WANT MY DAILYMOTION BACK DAMMIT!!

  27. 27 Tekkzi said at 8:10 pm on January 9th, 2007:

    RAWR DAILYMOTION WAS THE BEST :@@@@@@@@ WHY DO THIS TO ME AGAIN :@ AND I HEAD DU IS GONNA HAVE THE SAME SHIZ

  28. 28 Ayumi said at 8:40 pm on January 13th, 2007:

    All right. This is really upsetting me. They’ve done this before, where they have blocked Youtube & re-opened, I was glad, but now, what now? Why are they blocking it again? & they blocked Dailymotion, too. Give me one good reason why they did that? I’m start to hate living here even more. Someone needs to call Etisalat & ask them, because if I do, I’m going to blow up in their face. This whole blocking issue better be temporary, or else… Urgh. Anyone know a way to open youtube? www3.youtube.com worked for a while, but then, I guess they found out about that. All the tips given up here weren’t useful either, anyone know? If yes, please e-mail me at this e-mail = ihsanne_canada@hotmail.com

  29. 29 SA said at 12:52 am on January 14th, 2007:

    etisalat is going crazy….why block the whole site when they can block individual clips….their service sucks they are pathetic….it feels like being caged and cast out from the rest of the world. Etisalat is depriving people of their rights

  30. 30 DUDETTE said at 9:06 am on January 14th, 2007:

    We all know the reason why they’ve blocked the daily motion. its loaded with PORN. DUHH! this suxxxx bigtime!!! peekvid.com is not working AT ALL thanks to this… I am so pissed yet i dont know what to do.. maybe we could make a petition or something… any ideas anyone?

  31. 31 afrite said at 10:16 am on February 1st, 2007:

    plz if any one know how to open http://www.hi5.com in uae plz send me at my mail mo3jab_ya_amar@yahoo.com its realy urgent thanks for help

  32. 32 Junaid said at 9:44 am on February 6th, 2007:

    they blocked hi5.com also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  33. 33 The Hunter  said at 8:52 am on February 9th, 2007:

    Guys Guys… not to be worry everything we can access it sooner or later and Etisalat let see how they going to stop this…no way it’s an open world. they block it today 100000 new more will open….hahah ..

  34. 34 viralintruder said at 2:39 pm on February 14th, 2007:

    you can watch anime and stuff on http://www.vidiac.com

  35. 35 osama said at 9:23 am on March 11th, 2007:

    PLEASE HELP ME GUYS!!! tell me how to acces hi5 and zorpia in UAE!!! plz email me at bizzleinc@hotmail.com THANKS!!!

  36. 36 Dennis said at 12:00 pm on March 21st, 2007:

    Hi guy’s, i used to loggin to a Auction, now its blocked, etisalat sys the did not blocked the site, and auction support says, its blocket(firewall) from modem and from etisalat. if i any otherway please somone???!!! if i change the modem? helps or not? email me please

  37. 37 Shushu said at 2:41 am on March 25th, 2007:

    HI5.com….???? anyone know how to unblock that ?? email me pls.!!

  38. 38 sumone said at 7:52 am on April 4th, 2007:

    u know this action is very stupid….. we all hve rights to access in any website that we want to!!! In order to banned the site or block the site doesn’t encourage people to have more morality or to not obsess with what they called “not appropriate”, but it depends on each person value!!!!!!!! Come on’.. open ur eyes

  39. 39 YouTubeProxy said at 2:25 pm on April 10th, 2007:

    access youtube from anywhere with youtube proxy

    http://youtubeproxy.org

  40. 40 Plopper said at 11:56 pm on April 15th, 2007:

    HI !
    Don’t worry bout youtube.

    Forget this site it’s full with american propaganda and they also censor (aka delete) any video that might offend the Great american Society.

    BTW been to Dubai, you have all there folks, need no bother with such minor issues as youtube crap…

    T’ke care !

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