Is YouTube blocked in Laos or Vietnam? I am going there this summer.

I miss YouTube. The last time I used my YouTube account was in 2010 in Hong Kong.

I respect the laws of China. No YouTube? OK. I can see why. No biggie.

Pretty sure youtube wasn't blocked in Vietnam. Never tried in Laos, but I would think it's fine there.

Dude, get a VPN, about $4-8 USD a month and can visit anything you want! Easy to set up and pretty fast.

In Laos & Vietnam you can get youtube no problem. I suspect the only reason you can't in China is because they are protecting youku/soku etc (probably some guangxi between the owners and the government)!

What blobbles said is exactly right. OP, what made you think that YouTube is blocked in Laos and Vietnam? Just because they are "communist" and next to China doesn't mean they are anything like China! In fact, Laos is about as open an economy as you can find in this part of the world and they are trying to simplify doing business as much as possible.

YouTube is 100% accessible in both countries, and as far as I'm aware, there are generally no blocked websites in Laos, unlike in China. However, facebook is an on/off affair in Vietnam, though it can generally be accessed.

The only other country in the region (apart from North Korea of course) where the internet is heavily censored is Myanmar, but with the recent opening up of that country, this could change quite quickly in a positive direction (some years ago, even hotmail and yahoo mail as well as yahoo! news etc. were either inaccessible or very difficult to access in Myanmar).