Muslim from Pakistan here. There's a lot more happening related to his: Youtube has been banned for near a month in Pakistan now because of Google's stance. But even that's not so bad. The worst is that in anti-youtube protests, more than 21 people have died in Pakistan (http://newsweekpakistan.com/scope/1841). Essentially, Google has opted to protect a BS troll video over the lives of 21 people. Anyone who has the faintest idea about the current situation in Pakistan would have expected these deaths to happen. You touched upon a sensitive topic causing droves of people to come out in protests. Pakistan is marred with terrorism and sectarian violence so clashes, attacks and taking advantage of the protests was to be expected. The result was almost two dozen dead. For these same reasons, Google censored the video in Libya. Apparently, the same logic doesn't apply for them here.
It's about time global corporations of Google scale understand that one size-policy cannot be applied to the world at large. Every place has different sensibilities, customs and laws. This "insistence" on pushing western ideals down the throats of everybody in the world is very myopic and arrogant. It's sad that they'd rather have Youtube blocked in Pakistan rather than work with the people of that country to bring the greater good Youtube brings.
You westerners don't get it. The web is pretty super-optimized for western languages and those 9 fonts that come with every system DON'T do justice to east Asian languages (I'm sure there are more). Times New Roman does not show Urdu in the best way or Pushto for that matter. The browser defaults suck and you can't have a good default for all languages of the world. It would make a world of difference if we could choose a font that is optimized for our language, not for style, for readability. That's something that's hard to implement with the current means.
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Muslim from Pakistan here. There's a lot more happening related to his: Youtube has been banned for near a month in Pakistan now because of Google's stance. But even that's not so bad. The worst is that in anti-youtube protests, more than 21 people have died in Pakistan (http://newsweekpakistan.com/scope/1841). Essentially, Google has opted to protect a BS troll video over the lives of 21 people. Anyone who has the faintest idea about the current situation in Pakistan would have expected these deaths to happen. You touched upon a sensitive topic causing droves of people to come out in protests. Pakistan is marred with terrorism and sectarian violence so clashes, attacks and taking advantage of the protests was to be expected. The result was almost two dozen dead. For these same reasons, Google censored the video in Libya. Apparently, the same logic doesn't apply for them here.
It's about time global corporations of Google scale understand that one size-policy cannot be applied to the world at large. Every place has different sensibilities, customs and laws. This "insistence" on pushing western ideals down the throats of everybody in the world is very myopic and arrogant. It's sad that they'd rather have Youtube blocked in Pakistan rather than work with the people of that country to bring the greater good Youtube brings.
You westerners don't get it. The web is pretty super-optimized for western languages and those 9 fonts that come with every system DON'T do justice to east Asian languages (I'm sure there are more). Times New Roman does not show Urdu in the best way or Pushto for that matter. The browser defaults suck and you can't have a good default for all languages of the world. It would make a world of difference if we could choose a font that is optimized for our language, not for style, for readability. That's something that's hard to implement with the current means.
Thanks for all those wonderful years and getting me through those hard times when I could just play with you and forget about the world.