It's official: YouTube ban to be lifted in 2018

November 29, 2017

SILVERIO LAND---It's been nearly ten years since YouTube was blocked in Silverio World. In 2009, a user uploaded a music video of Selena Gomez's hit song Naturally without permission from Disney, and it led to YouTube being blocked in Silverio World. However, thanks to the MBSY Net Neutrality Treaty, the site's ban may finally be lifted.

In the years since the block on YouTube, two sites have emerged as alternatives for user-made videos: Viddle and Uservid. Viddle is the more popular of the two, and it has a user-friendly interface. However, it only allows SD videos, and they can only be up to 30 minutes long. Uservid is more complicated, but it allows users to upload in HD and 4K. Plus, they can be as long as the user wants as long as they pay a SP 100/mo subscription. Both sites have apps on iOS, Android and Yossi, and they can be used on smart TVs.

Then, in late 2015, the Silverish internet changed forever when Google purchased the knockoff search engine Spidiu for SP 100 million. This caused Spidiu to be rebranded to Google Silverio World. It led to various changes, including allowing Chromebooks and the then-upcoming Pixel smartphones to be sold in Silverio World. There was a major problem though: most of Google's apps and services were blocked in Silverio World. They lobbied with the Silverish government to unblock these services with mixed results.

However, all of this might change soon as Google Silverio World might finally allow YouTube to be viewable in Silverio World again. With the launch of Project Empty Dragon, a local version of YouTube, targeted exclusively at Silverio World, is planned to hit the Silverish internet by Q1 2019 if all goes well.