{"id":58351,"date":"2022-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/07\/27\/youtube-responds-to-saudi-request-to-remove-offensive-ads\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T00:00:00","slug":"youtube-responds-to-saudi-request-to-remove-offensive-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/07\/27\/youtube-responds-to-saudi-request-to-remove-offensive-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Responds to Saudi Request to Remove Offensive Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube responded on Monday to an urgent Saudi request to remove ads that violate Islamic values and principles.<\/p>\n<p>\nA spokesman for the platform in the Middle East confirmed that the offensive ads that had appeared on the service were removed.<\/p>\n<p>\n&ldquo;Protecting society is one of the platform&rsquo;s top priorities in Saudi Arabia and around the world,&rdquo; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Sunday, Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s General Commission for Audiovisual Media (GCAM) and the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) released a statement demanding the platform remove the offensive advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey noted that YouTube showed advertisements directed at users in the Kingdom that included broadcasting content that conflicts with &ldquo;Islamic and societal values and principles and are in violation of the media content controls in the Kingdom and the policy of the YouTube platform.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n&ldquo;In the event that the violating content continues to be broadcast, the necessary legal measures will be taken in accordance with the two communications and audio-visual regulations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Google-owned company was quick to remove the offensive content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube responded on Monday to an urgent Saudi request to remove ads that violate Islamic values and principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}