YouTube is blocking access in India to a story by CBC’s The Fifth Estate on the alleged contract killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist after the Indian government ordered the social media platform to take that action.
The Fifth Estate story released on Friday included video of the fatal shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar last June as he left his place of worship in Surrey, B.C.
In an email to CBC on Wednesday, YouTube said it had received an order from India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to block access to the video of the story from its website.
This isn’t OP’s fault, the title is accurate to the article, but I think it’s quite important to clarify that the block is only in effect within India. That still sucks - censorship is awful - but YouTube didn’t agree to internationally censor the video entirely at the behest of a single corrupt government order.
