<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h3 class=""><a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/06/11/igp-at-rightscon-online-content-takedown-and-censorship/" class="">https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/06/11/igp-at-rightscon-online-content-takedown-and-censorship/</a></h3><h3 class=""><strong class="">Censorship and online video streaming</strong></h3><p class="">YouTube
deactivated Wael Abbas’s YouTube videos of police brutality in Egypt,
because the content was graphically violent, which were restored later
after<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/insert-better-title-here" class=""> complaints filed against YouTube</a>. Google took down a number of Iranian YouTube accounts last year <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/google-removes-youtube-channels-and-web-accounts-tied-to-iran" class="">because they were spreading misinformation and were tied to the Iranian government</a>.
Iranian government approach to content moderation is more or less
similar: Aparat is a popular online video platform (similar to YouTube)
in Iran. Due to filtering, it has a high number of users. When entities
critical of the government create channels and accounts on this
platform, their account is <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/09/how-iran-is-building-its-censorship-friendly-domestic-internet/" class="">suspended and deleted for a variety of reasons, one is spreading lies</a>.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>