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ISSN 2226-7492

The YouTube ban

December 2, 2013
Freedom of Expression
Web Desk

Pakistan Press Foundation

YouTube has been blocked in Pakistan since September 27, 2012. People are now frustrated and most have tried to find proxy servers to access the site.

The solution to this is to work with YouTube and block access to certain material within the region only. The second option is to not block the entire website but trust people that they are mature enough to restrain from viewing such videos for which the website has been blocked. YouTube has become world’s digital library and we cannot ban all libraries just because one person has written an offensive book.

Rutaba Muneer
Karachi

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