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YouTube closure

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THE PTA and the Supreme Court have banned YouTube in Pakistan. This ban is serving no purpose. As a student, we are also facing some odds. There is a big contradiction in what the SC ordered and what is actually happening in the cyber world. There are a number of Internet proxy servers through which […]


YouTube ban

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YOUTUBE ban continues in Pakistan in spite of several promises made by Rehman Malik, which are on record, to lift the ban within a few weeks. A good four months have passed since the ban. On YouTube, one could frequently see a great deal of region-specific content that can be accessed only in the specified […]


Lift the ban on YouTube

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By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: The government’s ban on video-sharing website YouTube has been protested on Twitter and Facebook time and again by everyone from ordinary citizens to journalists and musicians in the past four months. While most have tried to live a life without YouTube — either by using Vimeo and Dailymotion — or around […]


YouTube ban

By: Mehar-un-nisa I would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities to an issue faced by a large number of students. Since we use content analysis as a methodology during our research, we need to access different websites for content. YouTube is preferred over other websites for this purpose. The YouTube ban has […]


The truth behind the YouTube ban

By: MUHAMMAD ADEEL Everybody knows that YouTube has been banned in Pakistan due to some blasphemous content. The people still do not know if the popular video sharing site has been banned because of blasphemous content alone or whether that was just a pretext to get the site closed down. Now I wish to share […]


Ban everything

BY: JALIL AHMED Why is everything being banned in Pakistan? It seems this country and its people are extremely sensitive and, many a time, for no reason. First we have a ban on YouTube, then we have a complete ban on adult content on the internet, then many movies from across the border are banned […]


YouTube blockade

WHAT began as an outrageous situation and was expected to be resolved promptly is starting to feel uncomfortably as though it might become a permanent bar on citizens’ rights to access the internet — and that too because of governmental apathy. In September, cowed by the havoc wreaked in Islamabad by rioters protesting against the […]


Government doing nothing to resolve YouTube issue

By: Jamal Shahid PM Raja Pervez Ashraf has order shutdown of Youtube services in Pakistan. ISLAMABAD: Since blocking the YouTube five months ago in the wake of protests across the country over a blasphemous movie, the government has done practically nothing to either get the objectionable content removed from the website or open access to […]


YouTube ban has small impact on research

By: Aroosa Shaukat LAHORE: With the YouTube ban in place for almost four months now, Pakistan’s academia questions the efficacy of the step, which has not only hidden the blasphemous content on the world’s largest video sharing website, but also veiled all the other and possibly useful content available. The ban was imposed on September […]


YouTube ban

By: Yasser Latif Hamdani No state, modern or ancient, secular or religious, has successfully managed to exercise thought control on its citizens The big news this week in the business world is the decision by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Google antitrust investigations. Holding that Google was not harming consumers in anyway, […]


Lift the YouTube ban

By: Zofashan Basit It is time the ban on YouTube was lifted. Why should our nation be denied access to YouTube, a source of information and knowledge to many and also a symbol of free thought and speech, just because of the wrong actions of a few? We need to speak up for our right […]