YouTube blocked in Pakistan

February 23rd, 2008 by Kashif Aziz ( 5,448 views )

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Popular video sharing website YouTube is blocked across Pakistan. The blockage has been found on service providers that are on PTCL backbone.

According to a source, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) directed all service providers to block a specific video on YouTube that contained blasphemous content. However, the intelligent service provider(s) blocked full access to the site.

On accessing that particular video, following error is reported:

ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

The following error was encountered:

* Access Denied.
Dear Valued Customer: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk) has directed all service providers of the country to block access to some blasphemous web content/movies on www.youtube.com web site. This content would remain blocked till the further orders from PTA.

The incident is also reported by Masud Reza, Lahore MetBlog, Shafiq, Ahmed Bilal and Adil Najam.

A work around is to use free proxies.

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5 Responses to “YouTube blocked in Pakistan”

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Pakistan Blog
February 24th, 2008 16:43 GMT
The above mentioned video in the post has been removed “due to terms of use violation.”

You can also confirm this via: http://www.sticklive.com or http://www.youhide.com

Thank you Google & YouTube team!
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M. Zafar
February 26th, 2008 01:50 GMT
Now its up again and working, its no longer blocked. I think such type of decision should be made by some literate person in authority who should know that such contents cannot be blocked over internet. Last time when the same thing happened, those idiots blocked the whole blogspot.com domain for around 2 months.
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M.Qasim
May 20th, 2010 16:36 GMT
Assalamlikum, i m very thankful to Wahaj-us-Siraj.n other Cooperative persons who take quick decision Against blasphemous content. We were REGULAR Users Of Facebook and Youtube.But After This Disgusting content.At least me n my family wont Use these Webs “INSHALLAH”.i Request All Muslims we must have to be UNITED n Have to Fight With “KUFFARS” n i Request All Muslim Countries Internet Service Providers that Block All Webs Of “KUFFARS” and I request All Muslims that we Must have to Boycott Of All webs Of “Kuffars” we have Power but we are not Utilizing Our Power.We can Dovelope our Platforms As Mailing,Chating,video sharing etc..We Are Giving Them Business with Using Thier Webs.If we will Create our platform They Bloody will face Big Loss..! Think About It Muslims n Be United. ALLAH HO AKBAR.
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Haider
May 21st, 2010 18:19 GMT
I hope u fullfill ur words and never visit youtube and face book again in ur life bcoz if u do then u would be a great liar…and…Great job PTA…please ban all the internet web sites because internet was also invented in the western world…and also ban people using computers…can any one tell me the name of the person who invented windows and operating systems that u r using on ur computers…y u r using it stop using it bcoz for ur information BILL GATES IS A JEW…if u don’t believe me go and see on google…so i was talking about bans…plz ban yahoo and hotmail as well…plzzzzzzzz ban everything… the IRONY IS OUR GREAT AND HIGHLY EDUCATED LEADERS GO AND BEG IN THOSE COUNTRIES FOR FINANCIAL AID AND ASSISTANCE AND THE EMBASSIES OF THOSE COUNTRIES ARE STILL OPEN HERE…i know truth is bitter…KEEP ON BANNING EVERYTHING…
5

sam
August 11th, 2010 18:26 GMT
to those who advocate censorship, if you don’t like it, don’t look at it.

These censorship rules usually start out with what is considered extreme and rapidly descend to politically motivated bans and thought policing.

It’s happening around the world and we should fight back to ensure complete freedom on the web.

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