Iraq Video Unplayable In The U.S.?
A Google Video that purports to be of the detonation of an Iraqi weapons cache is not allowed to be played in the United States. What gives? You can see it by embedding it in a webpage (as I’ve done below), but what reasoning is there for the “This video is not playable in your country.” message? Evil U.S. government conspiracy, weird bug, a decision of the uploader, or something else entirely?
“Night Explosion”
Hat-tip: Ronen
When a video is uploaded to googe, the owner can decide on the countries. I don’t know if that’s the case here
Comment by rr | February 19, 2006
Congratulations, now you share the feeling of everyone outside the U.S. had for the past months.
Comment by mnt | February 19, 2006
If you are in the U.S. and can’t see the page, you can just use Tor[1]. Tor is a free open source program that lets you use the internet anonymously.
When using Tor Google can’t see where you come from.
This is good for people in other contries which are censored. China for instance.
[1]: Get Tor from here: http://tor.eff.org/.
Comment by Thomas Damgaard Nielsen | February 20, 2006
Now imagine this happening to *all the videos* on Google Video… and you know what it felt like to be a German Google Video user the past year
Comment by Philipp Lenssen | February 20, 2006
[…] Fakt ist auf jeden Fall, das was in Deutschland bei “Google Video” zu sehen ist, amerikanische Nutzer in den USA vorenthalten wird. Kaum steht diese Tatsache fest, wird wild spekuliert. Die Website The Register sowie das Blog InsideGoogle sprechen gar von Zensur seitens des Suchmaschinenherstellers. […]
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