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Pakistan blocks access to YouTube in internet crackdown (Freedom As A Threat Alert)
BBC News ^

Posted on 05/20/2010 5:04:17 AM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III

On Wednesday a Pakistani court ordered Facebook to be blocked because of a page inviting people to draw caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

Some Wikipedia pages are also now being restricted, latest reports say.

Correspondents say it remains to be seen how successful the new bans will be in Pakistan and whether citizens find a way round them.

YouTube says it is "looking into the matter and working to ensure that the service is restored as soon as possible". The site was briefly blocked in Pakistan in 2008 - ostensibly for carrying material deemed offensive to Muslims.

Facebook said on Wednesday that the content did not violate its terms.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: blocked; facebook; muhammad; pakistan
Governments blocking information access is always a very very bad thing.
1 posted on 05/20/2010 5:04:17 AM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III
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Are we going to have a draw the mohammad thread?
2 posted on 05/20/2010 5:07:39 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Prunes.)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III
"Freedom is a threat only to those who would take it away. - Me
3 posted on 05/20/2010 5:08:35 AM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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