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YouTube Blocked In Pakistan

Posted by timothy on from the differential-fragility dept.

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.

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  1. smells like dissent by DeadJesusRodeo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

  2. Refreshing by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

    1. Re:Refreshing by elrous0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      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.

      --
      SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  3. BULLSHIT!! MOD THIS SHIT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The US Military haven't blocked anyone or anything because the wikileaks video. Either you just made it up, or got some bad info. In any case, it's up to you to provide an example to substantiate this wild claim.

    Otherwise, I just completely called you out on your bullshit and destroyed you. 1-0.