Pakistan bans YouTube site
Published Date:
25 February 2008
Pakistan's government has banned access to the video-sharing website YouTube because of movies that the authorities consider 'anti-Islamic'.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country's 70 internet service providers on Friday that the popular website is blocked until further notice.
The authority did not specify what the offensive material was, but a PTA official said the ban concerned a movie trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders portraying the religion as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.
The PTA official said the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority also blocks websites that show controversial drawings of the Prophet Mohammed. The drawings were originally printed in European newspapers in 2006 and were reprinted by some papers last week.
The PTA urged web users to write to YouTube and request the removal of the movies, saying authorities would stop blocking the site once that happened.
In January, a court in Turkey blocked the website because some video clips allegedly insulted the country's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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25 February 2008 9:07 AM
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