Saudi Arabi lwa has plans to prepare guidelines for creators. That means, among other things, that there are rules about use of alcohol, tobacco and sexual acts. The action would be directed mainly to creators of videos on YouTube in their ability to limit.
That says The Wall Street Journal based on an interview with the Saudi commission for audiovisual media. According to director Riyadh Najm, are the guidelines intended to make clear what is and is not acceptable in movies that are on YouTube. It involves, among other things, such as alcohol, tobacco and sexual acts. The new rules will also apply to other video sites.
With the rules, will Saudi Arabia probably do something against the content of YouTube videos, which by the inhabitants to be brought online. The video site of Google has great popularity among the younger part of the population. The Wall Street Journal reports that there are per person in Saudi Arabia three times as much to YouTube will look as in the United States. The popularity probably has something to do with the strict censorship that prevails on the private media channels in the Arab country: On YouTube content creators to relatively a lot of freedom.
It is not the first time that Saudi Arabia is trying to make western online communication services to check. Previously threatened the Arab country with a ban on Skype and Whatsapp as the services to be no possibility in would be built to the government calls to listen to.
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