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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. Re:smells like dissent by ls671 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently Twitter supports Unicode, which opens a whole range of new possibilities ;-)

    http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/01/14/how-to-insert-graphics-in-twitter-messages/

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  2. Re:They don't even understand the history by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that this isn't a principle that started when the religion was founded, the whole anti-depiction thing only started about 2 or 3 hundred years ago. The religion itself is older, and has depictions of Muhammed.

  3. Re:The problem by krkhan · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am in Pakistan right now and find the whole situation amusing. Perhaps they should block queries to root name servers as well since ICANN are not blocking the queries to zones that can resolve blasphemous domains. Yeah. That would service the Internet *right*!

  4. Re:Mohammed by Pharmboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do know that followers of Islam are not supposed to eat any port products right?

    Woosh, that was part of the joke. Jews aren't supposed to eat pork either, but go to any buffet in Vegas and try counting all the people eating bacon and wearing yamakas. And Muslims are allowed to eat pork if no other food is available anyway (cite: The Quran 2:173). Technically, Christians are not supposed to eat pork either:

    The pig also because it is a splitter of the hoof but there is no cud. It is unclean for you. None of their flesh must you eat and carcass you must not touch. " Deuteronomy 14:8

    Fortunately, I'm a Pastafarian, so I can eat wtf I want. And while I won't get 72 virgins, there is a beer volcano and a stripper factory in our heaven.

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  5. Re:smells like dissent by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 3, Informative

    I realize that's the Christian interpretation. It's certainly not the Islamic interpretation, as far as I can tell.

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