An Egyptian judge has ordered the government to block YouTube for a month over the anti-Islamic video that showed up last year and caused deadly riots, the Newser website reports today (February 9, 2013).
The judge called "The Innocence of Muslims" film "offensive to Islam," but it is unclear whether the government would be able -- or be willing -- to enforce the penalty. YouTube parent Google has yet to comment on the judge's ruling.
"This verdict shows that judges' understanding of technology is weak," says a human rights lawyer in Egypt. "The judges do not realize that one wrong post on a website does not mean you have to block the entire website."
Another court in Egypt last year sentenced seven of the film's promoters to death, but that, too, seems impossible to enforce, given that all seven live outside the country.
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