I knew Mormons weren’t allowed to drink an ice cold Coca-Cola on a hot Utah day or enjoy a grande double latte from Starbucks, but I didn’t know they weren’t allowed to watch dumb videos on YouTube. From the Washington Post:
Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube.
Administrators at the Provo, Utah, university lifted the ban Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said.
YouTube has its own filters for pornography, but BYU added it to the list of Web sites blocked by campus online filters in 2006 because administrators felt there was too much content that could violate the school’s strict standards.
Like most people, I figured their special holy Mormon long underwear protected them against any of the evil running around YouTube. I guess not.
