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Pakistan's Internet censorship

theres always sumthing outrageous on youtube mate... islamophobia is common. Lot of ppl swear about islam and pakistan. There r hundreds and thousands of videos but then there r Pakistani ppl like me to argue with them and talk back so theres no point in banning it.

By the way u ppl can visit my channel at YouTube - dimension117's Channel...
 
Oh please. Censorship happens every where. The people who want to upload anti-Pakistan or anti-Islamic videos will do so regardless of what happens. For example if I decide to upload anti-India video(Dont worry this is jsut an example I dont mean to offended anyone) I will do so no matter what happens. Their are a lot of ways to spread propaganda this is just one of them.

Exactly. By banning our citizens from putting positive vidoes about Pakistan, now only our enemies will win by getting open chace to spread propoganda unopposed. There are many people on YouTube uploading Pakistani songs, videos and dramas and Pakistan military stuff.

All of them are now blocked by the government from doing their patriotic service to the nation by showing the world the real Pakistan. If youtube had always been blocked in Pakistan, beautiful videos like this one would never have shown the world what our country is really like. Read the comments by every foreigner and see what they are saying.

51LiUJfLkKY[/media] - Truth about Pakistan

This one video's advantages to our country far outweigh any negatives from a thousand anti-Pakistan videos.
 
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Sample comments from above video:

love the videos. Such a beautiful country Pakistan. Have many Pakistani friends. and they are the nicest and most beautiful people on earth. Hopefully plan to visit Pakistan next year and do some trekking. Very nice video. can u post some more cuz I think ppl need to see more real footage of Pakistan so they can see the real beauty in its people. Thanks

This is probably the best view of pakistan I have seen. Being british and travelling to pakistan every summer is good, but after watching this video, I want to travel there more. Very cool video. Well Done!

omg awesome*****country***pakistan****i can't wait to visit there!!

Pakistan multicultural and Brave nation,,, to explore pakistan still need 50 year more... The country in which three different seaons and same in different region,, Amazing

Very nice video. I don't know why but we were tought in the schools that we should affililiate to Pakistan in Turkey. I did not know Pakistan is so modernized. This summer I will be in your beautiful country.
Loves from Turkey

Ya, this video was important to project a better world view of Pakistan... otherwise the only aspect it is linked to is supporting terrorism, civil disorder, and even lack of basic democratic rights!!!

WOW!!!! i am really impressed. I am of Indian origin born in Fiji Islands, but reside here in U.S. I am really glad to see pakistan portrayed like this. Instead of those Mullahs dressed in Salwar and shouting anti U.S slogans. I think pakistan will emerge as one of the most successful nations in Asia if the young youths instead of listening to mullahs, come as one and work towards inproving the country

pakistan, like any other country has its good and bad side. not everything is beautiful in the US, europe and other prosperous countries. i enjoyed this video.

I am an Indian and I really appreciate that u tried to present true picture of ur country...a great video about a good nation and its people i'm an indian and i appreciate it god bless both the countries

After hearing the news today that ex-prime minister Bhutto was assassinated during a rally, my perception of Pakistan as a lawless terrorist-state became that much more solidified. But after watching this vid I realized that I was wrong. Every country has problems, but there is also good as well. Too often we focus only on the negative.

i'm an american,and need to say that we are deeply sorry for pakistan recent loss!STAND FOR YOUR FREEDOM stop oppression, protect your civil liberty and freedom of assembly! and remember freedom is not free god bless you all u.s.a

Such a beautiful country!

Wow! What a great Video. I was looking for some Info on Pakistan & trying to make sense of the recent news headlines. Thanks for showing this ignorant white Canuck your beautiful country.

nice country
high quality video
i wanna visit there someday

wow, Looks just like the United States in many ways.

I learned 2 much abt this great place since last year.I can say now I learned more than I was waiting 4.Beautiful places, pleasant and friendly ppl, nice friendships...Wow I'm so glad abt all my **** friends.I learned 2 much w/ all of them.Some ppl need to respect and appreciate this great country.All of countries in the world has some problems coz humans do mistakes but we need 2 respect and find our best points.That's all.Hugs from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil!

hey hey..it's lovely to see a face of pakistan soo different from what we percieve in india..
I dunno how true this vedio is...but it definately is beautiful

trees and hills ,a beautiful country0!

Wow! America makes it look like ALL of Pakistan is a bunch of terrorists preparing to invade and destroy Western Civilization! I am impressed!

I really want to go there, beautiful place!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing video. May Pakistan prosper and become one of the most important countries in the World.

personally i enjoyed pakistan much more than india, there was a better infrastructure, road/streets etc and far less extreme poverty which surprised me, it also was less crowded

Just a glimpse of the power of YouTube to show the world what Pakistan is really like. One positive video won many admirers for Pakistan. Imagine the loss to our country when now Pakistanis cannot upload Pakistani videos.
 
Pakistan's YouTube ban blocks other countries

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries.
The outage highlighted yet another of the Internet's vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and caused communications problems from the Middle East to India.

An Internet expert likened the cause of the outage to "identity theft" by a Pakistani telecommunications company, which accidentally started advertising itself as the fastest route to YouTube. But instead of serving up videos of skateboarding dogs, it sent the traffic into oblivion.

On Friday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com, because of anti-Islamic movies on the video-sharing site, which is owned by Google.

The authority did not specify what the offensive material was, but a PTA official said the ban concerned a trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has said he plans to release a movie portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.

The block was intended to cover only Pakistan, but extended to about two-thirds of the global Internet population, starting at 1:47 p.m. ET Sunday, according to Renesys Corp., a Manchester, N.H., firm that keeps track of the pathways of the Internet for telecommunications companies and other clients.

The greatest effect was in Asia, were the outage lasted for up to two hours, Renesys said.

YouTube confirmed the outage on Monday, saying it was caused by a network in Pakistan.

"We are investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent this from happening again," YouTube said in an e-mailed statement.

A YouTube spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an e-mailed question on whether the clips that offended Pakistan's government had been removed. Several clips with interviews of Wilders were still up on the site Monday afternoon.

Two apparent errors allowed the outage to propagate beyond Pakistan, according to Todd Underwood, vice president and general manager of Internet community services at Renesys.

Pakistan Telecom established a route that directed requests for YouTube videos from local Internet subscribers to a "black hole," where the data was discarded, according to Renesys. Pakistan Telecom's mistake was that it then published that route to its international data carrier, PCCW Ltd. of Hong Kong, Underwood said.

The second mistake was that PCCW accepted that route, Underwood said. It started directing requests from its customers for YouTube data to Pakistan. And since PCCW is one of the world's 20 largest data carriers, its routing table was passed along to other large carriers without any attempt at verification.

"Once a pretty big network gets an error like that, it propagates to most or all of the Internet very quickly," Underwood said. As he put it, Pakistan Telecom was impersonating YouTube to much of the world.

Pakistan Telecom and the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority were unavailable for comment on Monday night local time. Rex Stover, vice president of sales for PCCW Global in Herndon, Va., said the company is still trying to figure out what happened and why.

John Palfrey, executive director for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, said that while all the facts in the case are not yet known, it appeared that the repercussions were due to Pakistan taking a relatively heavy-handed approach in trying to censor YouTube.

"It points in many respects to the difficulty, if not the folly, in Internet filtering at the state level," he said.

Misrouting occurs every year or so among the world's Internet carriers, usually as a result of typos or other errors, Underwood said. In a more severe example, a Turkish telecom provider in 2004 started advertising that it was the best route to all of the Internet, causing widespread outages for many websites over several hours.

"Nobody ran any viruses or worms or malicious code. This is just the way the Internet works. And it's not very secure or reliable," Underwood said, adding that there is no real solution to the problem on the table.

While most route hijacking is unintentional, some Yahoo networks were apparently taken over a few years ago to distribute spam.

"To be honest, there's not a single thing preventing this from happening to E-Trade, or Bank of America, or the FBI, or the White House, or the Clinton campaign," Underwood said. "I think it's a useful moment for people to decide just how important it is that we fix problems like this."

Associated Press writer Sadaqat Jan contributed to this report from Islamabad, Pakistan.

Pakistan's YouTube ban blocks other countries - USATODAY.com
 
Where the Youtube has been banned ?????????????


I am sitting in my office here in Peshawar and i am watching a video on Youtube. and i can access it without using any advance trick.

I wonder where it has been blocked.
 
Where the Youtube has been banned ?????????????


I am sitting in my office here in Peshawar and i am watching a video on Youtube. and i can access it without using any advance trick.

I wonder where it has been blocked.



Google might have scolded PTA..
 
:confused: If you say so...the guy with the beard doesn't exactly look like a dance teacher to me!

P.S. Don't you think the dancing is kinda slutty?



are ...............

please see the ending...They are clapping...saying"bahut accha and sabash"



and there is a kid..and 1 woman..


there is nothing vulgarity except the name..
 
The video name is wrong ..But please see the contents??


The girl is dancing in her a house and there are relatives who are praising her..

i saw 2 women and 1 small kid





Last video which i put was good!!!it was abt karanchi city.......

i think people are deleting it without seeing it..
 
The video name is wrong ..But please see the contents??


The girl is dancing in her a house and there are relatives who are praising her..

i saw 2 women and 1 small kid

Actually thats a brothel; and 2 women are prostitutes with a kid.

Last video which i put was good!!!it was abt karanchi city.......

Thats why it didn't got deleted.
 
They have now removed the video..but i had seen it day before yday.......


some 4.30 minute clip.....
 
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