YouTube Blocked in Pakistan By PTA
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued a notice today to all ISPs in Pakistan to block few URLs which were related to election rigging. Since Pakistani service providers didn’t have proper infrastructure to block individual URLs, they blocked the whole domain.
Blocking websites in Pakistan is not new. Government authorities do this many times in the past, but they could not achieve their goal. Technologically speaking there are always some back doors to accomplish their desires so you will see lot of solutions to watch youtube videos in few days.
This is not important that YouTube is blocked, this is important that WHY it is blocked. Some of you might be thinking that it is being blocked due to some vulgarity, nudity, mujras and some questionable material that might be corrupting our society & culture. But this time YouTube is blocked due to some political situation rather than Cultural.
I personally watched few videos of electoral rigging those were placed on YouTube. I cannot provide you the link because I am in Pakistan and I cannot open YouTube 
. Moreove I do a trace rout an it ends up on PIE (Pakistan Internet Exchange).
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PTA has done a great job. no body in pakistan uses facebook & youtube for educational purpose . plz bann youtube and facebook permanently..
now its also not working youtube i think its again banned in pakistan becox when we copy there embed code and paste in our page its not opened. can any one tell me whats the problem is
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I think this act of Pakistan’s Government should be challenged . What the hell they think of them self? I don’t see any reason why should they do this.
I think this act of Pakistan’s Government should be challenged . What the hell they think of them self? I don’t see any reason why should they do this.
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there are many , i am posting here one of them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLHmWD0oYec&feature=related
there are many , i am posting here one of them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLHmWD0oYec&feature=related
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All the rigging videos have been removed from YouTube. It should be back to normal shortly in Pakistan.
All the rigging videos have been removed from YouTube. It should be back to normal shortly in Pakistan.
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