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Egyptian court bans YouTube for a month
by Abigail Hauslohner
Washington Post
February 11, 2013
https://www.legal-project.org/3915/egypt-court-orders-youtube-banned-for-a-month
Excerpt:
CAIRO — An Egyptian court ordered a one-month ban on YouTube on Saturday, after it said the video-sharing Web site had failed to remove an American-made anti-Islam video.
Cairo's administrative court ruled in response to a suit filed by an independent Egyptian lawyer. Judge Hassouna Tawfiq, who presided over the case, said the ban would also apply to other Web sites that circulated the video, including, potentially, social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
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