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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. Probably Hiding the Same place by SRA8 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Those peaceful Muslims are probably hiding in the same place where... ...where Jews are hiding while hundreds of thousands were massacred in Sabra, Shatilla, Gaza ...where Christians are hiding while over a million are killed in Iraq Generally the response to this is some variant of "Well,..those people in Sabra/Shatilla/Jenin/Iraq/Vietnam/etc deserved to die because they were evil..." Well...then, i'd say you arent worthy to speak of peace. Either speak out against all hate or shut your mouth. You can support Genocide of one people and oppose it when your friends are doing it.

    1. Re:Probably Hiding the Same place by SRA8 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Pick up a copy of the Wall St Journal and you'll find weekly editorial support of mass-murder policies, be it Abu Gharaib or collective punishment in Gaza. I have yet to see a single Christian or Jewish person speak up against the WSJ campaign. Could you please provide evidence?
      Then there is Michael Savage supporting genocide of Muslims http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4yVeEawi-A
      Finally, please show some evidence that 9-11 was actively celebrated in the Muslim world. Also show evidence that people were silent, as I saw plenty of letters condemning the incident, including one I wrote myself. Then there was one of the most famous scholars in the US Hamza Yusif, who denounced 9-11 quite openly. That you didnt hear this suggests you get your "news" from either Fox or some KKK website. So get real.

  2. Re:Lets bring these people up to speed by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Troll

    So... why is [i]male[/i] genital mutilation still acceptable in the USA?
    Because the jews do it, and in case you didn't know, the jews are the "chosen people(TM)"; the whole Earth belong to thems, since god gave it to them, and only them.
  3. They did a lot more than block it in Pakistan by ZWithaPGGB · · Score: 0, Troll

    They announced a route out of AS 17557 sending all traffic from ANYWHERE on the Internet to a black-hole in Pakistan. The effect was to make YouTube unreachable from ANYWHERE until the route was filtered by the backbone providers. They claimed it was an "oops".

    Am I the only one who is fed up with Islamic Medievalism? If they want to live in the stone age, let's send them there. It will also solve a good bit of the world's over-population problem.