Pakistan lifts YouTube ban

February 26th, 2008 by Monitor

Pakistan has lifted restrictions on YouTube access. Let us hope they are more sheepish about their censorious blunder than this article reveals.

UPDATE: (10 mins later) If the article is correct, access to the site was restored only after YouTube had removed what government officials had deemed a “blasphemous” clip. We do not know what clip that was.

UPDATE: (27 Feb) The BBC has the latest report on this, bit it is still unclear what, if anything, YouTube has agreed to remove. Geert Wilders’ Koran movie trailer is still up there.

3 Responses to “Pakistan lifts YouTube ban”

martyn says:

27/Feb/2008 at 1:42 pm

Yes that’s the way to go, cave in straight away. Spineless you tube tossers
Dave says:

28/Feb/2008 at 11:50 pm

Well Done Youtube!
There is no room for racists on the web… Kick them all out.
Youtube is a responsible organisation and respects view of the Billions of Muslims of this world. Well done Youtube.
Andrew Nixon says:

29/Feb/2008 at 7:02 am

Dave – Islam isn’t a race.

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