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Access to You Tube has been blocked by several countries because they felt the content was offensive. Several countries blocked the site temporarily including Morocco, Thailand, Iran, Pakistan, and The People's Republic of China. Some schools have blocked access, citing not being able to determine what sort of video material might be accessed by students. Countries that currently have the site blocked are Turkey and Libya. Pakistan blocked the site again in May 2010 for sacrilegious content.  All Videos have to be under 15 minutes. It used to be 10 minutes but in July 2010 it was increased to 15 minutes. The file size cannot be more than 2GB. One of the key features that the site offers is that users can view the sites videos on web pages outside of the site. The videos can be embedded as well as ranking and commenting. The owner of the video can disable all three if they want to.