Youtube banned in Pakistan

[Undesired Walrus]

Because some of the content may be offensive to Islam, Pakistan has banned Youtube from all their citizens.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7261727.stm

If the channel was banned because it had several videos insulting the governments foriegn policy, we would quite rightly be outraged at such a law which would have all the traits of a dictatorship.

[tkingdoll]

Hmm. Well, maybe it will annoy Pakistani citizens enough for them to do something about their stupid government.

[Denial]

Apparently that article doesn't tell the whole story.
More here (http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=548).

The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today.And here (http://www.bloggernews.net/114054).
Actually Musharraf is a very self centered and insecure man these days and has recently learned from his sycophants that YouTube carries many videos critical of his government especially his torture on lawyers and political captives and since during this campaign technology played critical role in influencing people he wants to block out every kind of criticism.

[tkingdoll]

According to the BBC, their attempt to block YouTube actually removed the site from most of the rest of the world as well, for about an hour.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm

Accidental hacking! Stupid as well as zealous. Way to go.