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YouTube is a free video sharing website on the internet. The website lets people upload, view, and share videos. YouTube started on February 14, 2005 by three former workers of PayPal.[4][5] Now, Google (a search engine company) owns and operates YouTube. YouTube now carries paid advertisements on all pages.

YouTube, LLC
YouTube Logo 2017.svg
TypeSubsidiary
Foundation dateFebruary 14, 2005 (2005-02-14)
Headquarters901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, California, United States
Area servedWorldwide (except blocked countries)
Founder(s)
Key peopleSusan Wojcicki (CEO)
Chad Hurley (Advisor)
IndustryInternet
Video hosting service
EmployeesIncrease 2000 (2019)
ParentIndependent (2005–2006)
Google (2006–present)
Slogan(s)Broadcast Yourself (2005–2012)
Written inJava,[1] Python[2] and proprietary JavaScript
Alexa rankSteady 2 (July 2017)[3]
AdvertisingGoogle AdSense
RegistrationOptional (not required to watch most videos; required for certain tasks such as uploading videos, viewing flagged (18+) videos, creating playlists and posting comments)
LaunchedFebruary 14, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-02-14)
Current statusActive

Videos can be rated with likes or dislikes, and viewers can subscribe to channels they like. Videos can be commented on if viewers log into their own accounts. The number of times a video has been watched (known as "views") is shown.

Many different types of videos can be put onto the website, such as educational content, animations, and events.

History

On February 14, 2005, three former workers of PayPal founded the site. In November 2006, Google bought YouTube. In 2012, an iOS app was created for YouTube. They changed their logo in 2017.

Features

Videos

YouTube[6] needed the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to play videos in the past.[7] However, in January 2010, YouTube tried using the built-in features of web browser (HTML5) so people would not need to use Adobe Flash player to watch videos.[8]

All YouTube[9] users can upload 15-minute long videos. Users who have used the site for enough time and follow the rules can upload videos that are 12 hours long. A user needs to verify the account to do this, however.[10] Everyone could upload long videos when YouTube started, but in March 2006 a ten-minute video limit was put in.[11] The limit was changed to 15 minutes in July 2010. Most video formats can be uploaded to YouTube, and videos can also be uploaded from mobile phones.[12]

Banning

YouTube is blocked in many schools because it allows children to search for videos that might distract them from their lessons. Some other social networking sites and game sites are blocked for the same reason. But at a higher level than schools (and in workplaces), some governments have blocked YouTube access to their country's public. Their reasons vary.

Iran

On December 3, 2006, the government of Iran blocked YouTube and several other sites to stop films and music from other countries from being seen.[13]

Turkey

Turkey blocked YouTube on March 6, 2007 for letting videos that were mean or discriminating to Turks and Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, to be shown. Because of a "virtual war" between Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and Turks on YouTube, people from each side posted videos to hurt the other.[14] The video that caused the banning said that Turks and Atatürk were gay. The video was first mentioned on Turkish CNN and the Istanbul public prosecutor sued YouTube for being mean to Turkishness.[15] The court suspended access to YouTube while waiting for the removal of the video. The ban was criticized a lot. YouTube lawyers sent proof of removal to court and users could access the website again on March 9, 2007.[16]

Thailand

During the week of March 8, YouTube was blocked in Thailand.[17] Many bloggers (people who have a "diary" online) believed the reason YouTube was blocked was because of a video of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's speech on CNN. However, the government did not confirm or give reasons for the ban. YouTube was unblocked on March 10.

On the night of April 3, YouTube was again blocked in Thailand.[18] The government said it was because of a video on the site that it said was "insulting" to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.[19] The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology claimed that it would unblock YouTube in a few days, after websites with references to this video are blocked instead of the entire website.[20] Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said, "When they decide to withdraw the clip, we will withdraw the ban."[21] Soon after this incident the internet technology blog Mashable was banned from Thailand over the reporting of the YouTube clips in question.[22]

Morocco

On May 25, 2007 the state-owned company Maroc Telecom blocked all access to YouTube.[23] There were no reasons given why YouTube was blocked. But the guesses are that it might have something to do with some pro-separatist group Polisario clips (Polisario is the Western Sahara independence movement) or because of some videos that criticized King Mohammed VI. This block did not concern the other two private internet-providers, Wana and Meditel. YouTube became accessible again on May 30, 2007 after Maroc Telecom unofficially announced that the denied access to the website was only a "technical glitch".[24]

Australia

In Australia, some schools, including all secondary schools in Victoria, have YouTube blocked from student access, after fights have been posted on YouTube.

China

Currently in China, the government has blocked YouTube. For several years, it has been unblocked but since the past five years it has been blocked.[25][26][27][28]

Terms of service

According the site's terms of service,[29] users may upload videos only if they have the permission of the copyright holder and of the people in the video. Pornography, defamation, harassment, commercials and videos that encourage criminal conduct may not be uploaded. The uploader gives YouTube permission to give out and change the uploaded video for any purpose, and they do not have permission anymore when the uploader deletes the video from the site. Users may view videos on the site but are not allowed to save them on their computers.

Localization

On June 19, 2007, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was in Paris to launch the new localization system.[30] The interface of the website is available with localized versions in 90 countries, and a worldwide version.[31]

Testing language

The interface of the YouTube website is available in 76 language versions including, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Mongolian, Persian and Uzbek, which do have local channel versions.

References

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