Feb 22
I am SUPER pissed. I mean, WTF?! (excuse my french) Youtube has been blocked in Pakistan, leaving thousands of instructional, knowledge building , and great videos out of reach of 160 million Pakistanis. The PTA apparently (as per the news article) had blocked one objectional page on youtube, but ISPs have blocked out the entire site?!
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=97814
Once again, we, by our people, are locked out of progress and change. I’m just ticked off now. Several other video sites still work, for the time being. If you remember, they also blocked blogger.com for a long time as well. That didnt last. I hope this doesnt.
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February 22nd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Thats strange, I have youtube.com open in my browser and it is working as always and I am in Karachi (Cyber net DSL).
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
maybe cyber hasnt done it yet. ptcl, maxcomm,etc are blocking it.
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 am
Proxy sites zindabad
Btw I can still access it…’am using WorldCall connection!
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
well, im using Worldcall (Lahore) and just checked, youtube isnt opening…
February 24th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Youtube is blocked at PIE so every provider using PIE will be effected and I’ve also heard that the site has also been blocked at TWA, don’t know about FLAG, as Cyber uses FLAG so this may be the reason for youtube working at Cyber
February 24th, 2008 at 9:04 am
i wonder whats wrong with our authorities? Like all they could think was to use some danish guys action to block a whole nation of 160 million HUMANS (ok lets just say 20-30% of them) to be deprived of a plethora of knowledge. First it was blogs and now Youtube..whats next? Google i suppose!
February 24th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
this was top news for most of sunday on cnet technology news (http://www.news.com/)
February 24th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
i think Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has done right thing by blocking youtube they have to remove cartoons of Hazrat Muhammad
February 25th, 2008 at 12:48 am
I support PTA decision.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:38 am
It is good step taken by govt of Pakistan. I am very happy.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:54 am
top headline on CNN now
February 25th, 2008 at 7:13 am
youtube encourages people to insult us. i have complained about some very degrading videos but they never take action. they only block Muslims.
it is a good step. other countries should follow that too.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:32 am
yes, lets all block free speech since we cant argue on intellectual terms , lets stick our heads in the sand. worked for us so far hasnt it. :/
does anyone know the amount of learning and scientific knowledge available on youtube?
February 25th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
blocking youtube is not a solution for anything. why does closing your eyes to a problem make you people happy? if there is a problem, be proactive about it - put up positive video’s. if you want to prove someone wrong, do it by being smarter, not by hiding.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
the sole problem i always had with islamic world was our lack of intellectual reasoning against what we considered ‘wrong’. From salman rushdie to danish cartoons, its the same trick where we have lost our effectiveness as an intellectual creed. Btw, some of the most pro-islamic videos are also there on the youtube….so, lets just kill the knowledge.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:59 am
its back up (checked 3pm Karachi time on Tuesday). Using PTCL DSL
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Ban all the internet web sites because internet was also invented in the western world so y r u people using rest of the internet…and also ban people using computers bcoz computers was not invented by pakis…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 and he is an american…if u don’t believe me go and see on google…SO FORMAT UR WINDOWS AS WELL BCOZ MICROSOFT IS AN AMERICAN COMPANY NOT A PAKI COMPANY…so i was talking about bans…plz ban yahoo and hotmail as well…PLZ BAN F-16 FIGHTER JETS AS WELL THAT OUR AIR FORCE USES BCOZ F-16 WAS GIVEN TO PAKIS BY AMERICANS AND 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…I AGREE WITH THE BAN OF FACE BOOK BUT NOT YOUTUBE….IF THERE IS SOME WRONG MATERIAL THEN JUST BLOCK THAT CONTENT OTHERWISE THE INFORMATION THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO HIDE CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON GOOGLE SO PLZ BAN GOOGLE AS WELL….AND ALL OF U THROW ALL WESTERN THINGS OUT OF UR HOME…EVEN COMPUTERS…BCOZ THE PROCESSOR IN UR COMPUTER IS EITHER OF INTEL OR AMD….AND ITS AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY….so y u r using, throw it away…