YouTube blocked in Pakistan
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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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: www.sticklive.com or www.youhide.com
Thank you Google & YouTube team!
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.