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Saudi authorities plan to regulate local companies producing content for YouTube, to ensure respect for Islamic laws and customs

Apr 27, 2014 6:06 pm By Robert Spencer

YouTubeThis is a template for the kinds of restrictions that will before too long come to the West, if the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, Reza Aslan’s Aslan Media, and other advocates for Sharia censorship in the U.S. get their way. And why won’t they get their way? It would be “Islamophobic” to oppose them.

“YouTube to respect Islamic laws and customs,” Asia News, April 25, 2014:

Dubai (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Saudi authorities plan to regulate local companies producing content for YouTube, this in the world’s top per capita user of the video-sharing website.

Dissatisfaction over state broadcasters’ staid programming and societal restrictions have created a uniquely captive audience for web-based entertainment.

The General Authority for Audiovisual Media, a recently formed watchdog, will soon issue a manifesto to organise – or regulate – the work of YouTube channels, said its president, Ryiadh Najm.

The plan will include rules and conditions that will be “in accordance with the nature of society and laws in this context”, Najm said, whilst allowing it to embrace “these talents and developing their artistic and technical abilities”.

The proposed new rules follow a new Saudi law that defines as terrorist any act that “disturbs public order, shakes the security of society, or subjects its national unity to danger, or obstructs the primary system of rule or harms the reputation of the state”.

Until now, Saudi YouTube programme makers have been able to operate without a licence because they are not actual broadcasters.

Channels like UTURN Entertainment and C3 have attracted more than 500 million views for their various YouTube shows as of mid-September 2013.

“Until we see the details, it’s a bit alarming, a threat for us,” said Kaswara Al Khatib, chairman and chief executive of UTURN Entertainment.

“The whole idea is to regulate it in a way to make sure where the areas are to be played with and the areas that should not be touched,” said Al Khatib.

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  1. Salah says

    Apr 27, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    “Saudi authorities plan to regulate local companies producing content for YouTube”

    They don’t need to, You Tube is already doing the job for them!

    The Perfect Man of Islam (removed from You Tube more than 600 times)!!!
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

  2. Jay Boo says

    Apr 27, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    Using this kind of logic ourselves means that we will be forced to regulate the garbage that Al Jazeera sponsored/ tax payer funded NPR regurgitates as well as Huff Post and their co-conspirators at Rolling Stone Magazine.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 27, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    Like King Canute stopping the tide, the Saudi rulers make themselves look like illiterate, unsophisticated clowns. The tide of technology will ruin the Saudi dictators.

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