ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has directed all the Internet service providers of the country to block access to the video-sharing website ‘Youtube’ for containing blasphemous content.
The order, issued by the director enforcement agency, says that the ratio of “non-Islamic objectionable video” has increased on the website. Following the order, all local ISPs have blocked the website from their servers. “The site would remain blocked till further orders from the PTA,” a local ISP worker said.
YouTube, powered by Google, allows people to easily upload and share video clips through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email, and is used by people all over the world. online
How is that going to make any impact? I am going to be bold here and say most of Pakistan is on dial up. Youtube is not for dialup. This is like banning Swedish television shows in Pakistan. No one watches them to begin with, so how is that going to affect anything.
You really are bold. Now you can get a 128k connection for under Rs. 600, so a lot of house holds have it now and streaming away all the videos they want.