Saturday 19 July 2014

CQ-No sign of lifting the ban on YouTube in Pakistan

As the Youtube has been banned in Pakistan since long time, the High Court of Sindh Province of Pakistan has issued notices to information technology secretary, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman and other concerned authorities. The notices are on a petition challenging the ban on video-sharing website.  
 
The parties have been asked to file their replies by 12 August according to a Pakistani website.
The move was followed by a petition backed by several petitioners stating that PTA had blocked over 1000 websites since September 2012 under the guise of ‘blasphemous content’.
According to the petitioner a ban on the largest video portal on internet will affect students, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists, religious scholars and all those who used the video website for commercial and professional aim.
The petitioner argued that instead of blocking the specific URLs, PTA opted to block the whole platform depriving the citizens of their basic rights. The move isn’t unheard because many Islamic countries have a system to block those blasphemous content or unwanted web pages on the internet.
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/new-media/item/5528-cq-no-sign-of-lifting-the-ban-on-youtube-in-pakistan.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/new-media/item/5528-cq-no-sign-of-lifting-the-ban-on-youtube-in-pakistan.html

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