Saudi body studying regulating YouTube production

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Source: AP

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) —Saudi Arabia is studying ways to regulate locally-produced YouTube content, including the possibility of requiring government-issued licenses for some users, said an official on Sunday.

Riyadh Najm, the president of The General Authority for Audiovisual Media, said his agency is still trying to figure out which type of YouTube content-producers would be affected and how the government agency would apply new regulations.

"We do not have a clear way yet implement to this," Najm told The Associated Press. "It is not clear who will be asked of this... it is all under study."

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More than a dozen Saudis in the past weeks have posted video statements on YouTube sharply criticizing the royal family and demanding change. At least three of those who appeared in videos have since been arrested, along with seven others connected to the videos, security officials have told the AP.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/saudi-body-studying-regulating-youtube-production

[seveneyes]

1. "to ensure users respect the country's conservative Muslim norms"

Here is to hoping the Saudi youth destroy the expectation of that nonsense.

[Skittles]

3. telling women they cannot drive is a conseravite Muslim norm?

complaining about it on Youtube is not?

[tofuandbeer]

2. It seems every country is eliminating net neutrality. Back to newspapers.