YouTube Introduces (and Retracts) Age Restriction to Al Jazeera Arabic Live Stream
May 19, 2021
Activists and media professionals have condemned attempts by social media platforms to control access to free and reliable content on the attacks by Israel on Palestine. On Wednesday morning, YouTube had, in the midst of this, added an age restriction to Al Jazeera Arabic’s live stream.
Al Jazeera reports that a message appeared on its Arabic YouTube page early on Wednesday, saying that its content may be inappropriate and that viewing the live stream required verification of the user’s age.
Earlier this month Facebook and Instagram were criticized for removing content and accounts sharing events in Sheikh Jarrah, the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood where Palestinian families are being forcibly dispossessed of their homes.