Anti-Muslim film back up on YouTube after court ruling

May 20, 2015 02:42

An anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to actors was reposted to YouTube today, a day after a federal appeals court ruled the website should not have been forced to take it down.

The roughly 14-minute trailer for "Innocence of Muslims" was reposted by a YouTube user.

YouTube is owned by Google, which declined comment.

Monday's court ruling by an 11-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for YouTube to remove filters blocking users from posting the clip on its site.

The panel said a previous decision by a smaller group of judges from the same court ordering Google to take the film down gave "short shrift" to the First Amendment and constituted prior restraint, a prohibition on free speech before it takes place.

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