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YouTube Banned In Australian Schools

To avoid cyber-bulling

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

1st of March 2007, 15:02 GMT

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YouTube, the video service provided by Google, contains a huge number of videos from all categories including sports, movies, entertainment, fun or even homemade movies. Because the product has millions of users that are continuously uploading new videos every day, the Australian authorities decided to block the service in all the schools from the Victoria state. It seems like it all started from a video uploaded by some students that recorded their assault
over a 17 years old girl in Melbourne. The movie was extremely popular among students so the Education Services Minister decided to ban the service in almost 1.600 entertainment schools.

"Education Services Minister Jacinta Allan said the schools and their Internet service providers already filtered the websites that were available to students, and YouTube had been added to a list of blocked sites. The state government "has never tolerated bullying in schools and this zero tolerance approach extends to the online world," Allan said. "All students have the right to learn in a safe and supportive learning environment - this includes making students' experience of the virtual world of learning as safe and productive as possible," she said," claims USA Today.

As you surely know, YouTube is continuously criticized by many other companies for the content published on the page but the most offensive firm was Viacom. The provider of Comedy Central and MTV demanded Google to remove almost 100.000 videos from YouTube because it considers the company receives praises for the content provided by other publishers. Although the loss was quite important, YouTube's traffic was boosted just after the removal started so it's obvious that Google's service is quite a powerful product even without other partnerships.

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