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Pakistan Blocks YouTube

Posted by Soulskill on from the out-of-sight-out-of-mind dept.

Multiple readers have written to tell us of news that Pakistan has ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies." This follows increasing unrest in Pakistan over a Danish newspaper's reprinting of cartoons which depict Islam in a less-than-favorable light. The cartoons also sparked controversy when they were first published a few years ago.

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  1. Screw Mohammed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck Islam.

    1. Re:Screw Mohammed. by macdaddy357 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Ha Ha! Those wacky Pakis. Will civilization ever be established in Muslim countries, or will they be savages forever?

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  2. Hmm. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I didn't know their public was even on the internet. I thought that was one of those countries where owning a modem was like a 5 year prison sentence.

    Oh well.

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  3. God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Religion just poisons everything. Did you know polio was on the verge of going the way of smallpox until a bunch of imams declared the vaccinations to be an evil plot? Now there's kids all over the Islamic world with polio. Really fucking great.

    We need a night of long knives where every imam, every priest, every rabbi, every religious "leader" wakes up with a slit throat.

    Enough of this shit, man. Fucking enough already.

  4. Crusader Wabbit by Harlem_Jackson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How long before the googles concede to the mussies? ...not too long

  5. Re:Lets bring these people up to speed by MightyYar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The kids don't get to decide if they want a perfectly healthy part of their body removed. This is the one good point that the anti-circumcision crowd has.

    But... it is such small potatoes compared to all of the other things that a parent is responsible for that I can't believe that it gets any attention at all. Education has a lot more impact on a child. Nutrition. Home life. Television. In fact, just about every facet of a child's upbringing has a larger impact than whether or not a little sliver of skin is cut off. People keep saying, "There is no conclusive evidence that circumcision is medically advantageous." Well, there's no conclusive evidence that it is harmful either, now is there? Where's that study?

    Seriously, let's move on to an issue that matters.
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  6. Re:Morocco tried to block YouTube once... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Enjoy your exploding cripples and 8th century cilivisation, islamofag!

  7. Re:Islam - Always Used to Getting its Own Way by Zollui · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No that's completely wrong. Christian fanatics today are incredibly violent and psychopathically extremist. They far excel even the worst of the Muslims in that regard. See this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owCXbDVTLRE