YouTube Blocked In Pakistan

kokoko1 submits this snippet from The Telegraph, which reports that Facebook isn't alone — now YouTube, too, is being censored in Pakistan. "The blocking of YouTube comes a day after a Pakistani court blocked Facebook amid a growing row over a competition on the social networking website to design cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad." Update: 05/20 18:58 GMT by T : According to an anonymous reader, Wikipedia and Flickr are out, too.
Update: 05/21 12:11 GMT by KD : And now add Twitter to the blocked list. This post claims that more than 1,000 sites are being blocked in Pakistan.

Comments

smells like dissent

[DeadJesusRodeo]

A handy excuse to cut off portals of dissent. Perhaps they’ll deny access to Twitter because of ascii depictions next. Isn’t suppression fun? I bet it’s even more fun with armed drones in your airspace. Wake me, when it all blows up because it will.

Refreshing

[Un pobre guey]

It is refreshing to learn that the US is not the only country governed by corrupt, ignorant, simple-minded, exploitative religious fanatics. A bit disconcerting, but refreshing nonetheless.

Re:Refreshing

[elrous0]

Oh, I'm afraid you've committed the ultimate sin of political correctness--you've DARED imply that one country/religion/belief-system is even the slightest bit superior to another! It's off to a Western prison for you--and, of course, I'm not implying that Western prisons are in any way superior to those of the Asia, Africa, or any other part of the world--which are all equals and equally deserving of our respect. In in no way by posting this in English did I mean to impose cultural hegemony of any other language.