FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2012 file photo, US Airways CEO and Chairman Doug Parker applauds the crew of flight 1549 in New York. Parker has no problem performing his own version of Gangnam Style before hundreds of employees. The CEO of US Airways even let a video of his dance get posted to YouTube. He's tall, outspoken and a competitor. He's also persistent. And that explains why he's very close to being put in charge of the world's largest airline, a product of the merger between American Airlines and US Airways. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2012 file photo, US Airways CEO and Chairman Doug Parker applauds the crew of flight 1549 in New York. Parker has no problem performing his own version of Gangnam Style before hundreds of employees. The CEO of US Airways even let a video of his dance get posted to YouTube. He's tall, outspoken and a competitor. He's also persistent. And that explains why he's very close to being put in charge of the world's largest airline, a product of the merger between American Airlines and US Airways. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2008 file photo, US Airways Chairman and CEO Doug Parker addresses the media in Tempe, Ariz. The merger between US Airways and American Airlines is a stunning achievement for Parker, who failed three previous times to land a mega-deal. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, U.S. Airways CEO Doug Parker, center, visits with employees after a news conference at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas. Parker has no problem performing his own version of Gangnam Style before hundreds of employees. The CEO of US Airways even let a video of his dance get posted to YouTube. He's tall, outspoken and a competitor. He's also persistent. And that explains why he's very close to being put in charge of the world's largest airline. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz speaks during a news conference at FTC in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, to announce that Google is agreeing to license certain patents to mobile phone rivals and stop a practice of including snippets from other websites in its search results as part of a settlement to end a 19-month investigation in the search leader's business practices. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
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This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, photo shows a Google sign at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google is pledging to license hundreds of key patents to mobile computing rivals under more reasonable terms and to curb the use of snippets from other websites in Internet search results in a settlement that ends a high-profile antitrust probe. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz gestures as he speaks during a news conference at FTC in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, to announce that Google is agreeing to license certain patents to mobile phone rivals and stop a practice of including snippets from other websites in its search results as part of a settlement to end a 19-month investigation in the search leader's business practices. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
Egypt telecoms authority says can't block YouTube
CAIRO (
AP) — An Egyptian rights group and the nation's telecommunication's ministry have filed appeals to reverse a court order to block
YouTube.
Last week, a judge ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website for 30 days for its carrying of an anti-Islam video that set off deadly riots last year.
The ministry said this week it cannot block access to YouTube because of high technical costs, adding that it cannot legally monitor the content of social media websites.
The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression in Egypt said Saturday that it too filed an appeal, calling the verdict "collective punishment."
YouTube has already blocked access to the film in Egypt because it broke local laws.
Past Egyptian verdicts banning websites deemed offensive were similarly not implemented.
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