sobota, 22 maja 2010

Pakistan blocks the access to Youtube and Facebook

Access to the most popular video sharing website, Youtube, and most commonly known and used social networking site, Facebook, was blocked in Pakistan, because there is un-Islamic, or Islamic-offensive content.
As for Facebook it started with the activity encouraging drawing images of prophet Muhammad, which strictly forbidden in Islamic countries.
Besides, there are also other pages blocked, like part of Wikipedia and some link to BBC news page, especially the section dedicated to South-East Asia.
One of the links blocked is to a BBC News website article about Pakistani soldiers apparently beating Taliban suspects in a video posted on Facebook- as it was written in one of the BBC articles.
First, they started to block only links, however the offensive content continue appearing. It is very offensive for many people in Pakistan and many of the are ready to delete their profile accounts or have already done it.
The conflict has risen, cause Facebook and YouTube are platforms by means of which free expression of opinions and ideas is possible.

"Such malicious and insulting attacks hurt the sentiments of Muslims around the world and cannot be accepted under the garb of freedom of expression".
Undoubtedly, this a thorny issue. Is a website administrator, who is guilty here,the users or a Muslim people who don't have the distant to themselves?

I would like to attach a coment of one Pakistani girl, which may give us some perspective on this problem:

I find these to be ill-advised measures. Blocking websites in countries does not prevent the content from existing in the first place. I think the Pakistani government should move to ban pornography (which is still easily available) before they ban Facebook and YouTube which are obviously on the better side of human development.

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