Youtube Banned In Pakistan Options

[Shayfi Boy]

got this notification through a frnd,

Dear Valued Customer:

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority

has directed all ISPs of the country to block access

to www.youtube.com web site for containing

blasphemous web content/movies.

The site would remain blocked till further orders from

PTA. Meanwhile, Internet users can write to

youtube.com to remove the objectionable web

content/movies because this removal would enable

the authorities to order un-blocking of this web

site.

We're sorry for any inconvenience.

Best Regards

Manager

Technical Assistance Center

Micronet Broadband Pvt. Ltd.

Islamabad

[vitalsignsguy]

^lol what a lame step by PTA



use a proxy dude and u can use youtube once again

[Guru]

WTH! :|

This is even more lame than the blocking of blogspot.com (blogger.com) some time ago.

Yeh baazi net ki baazi hai
Yeh baazi tum hi haaro ge
Har site se YouTube niklay gi
Tum kitni YouTubes maaro ge?


P.S. For now, it's working at my side.

[safir]

PTA has got nothing better to do than blocking sites. I am sure people will find ways to circumvent the ban. PTA thinks that by sensorship, yutube will remove the so called objectionable content. In their dreams.

[vitalsignsguy]

lol I knew there ware more to it than the "sudden" realization of blasphemous content on youtube.
If you guys visit any Pakistani blogs, or even youtube, you will notice that there are tonz of hidden camera videos of MQM thugs casting fake ballots in Karachi
So surprise surprise YOUTUBE has been blocked within few hours of those videos being published.


almost all the videos have now been removed from youtube but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbpWPoWeG_g
is still remaing I urge u all to watch it, as it will be taken off soon


however I have saved it

[TNT_for_Brain]

Pakistani authorities on Friday banned access to the popular video-hosting website YouTube for allegedly featuring blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority directed internet service providers across the country to block access to youtube.com.

A statement issued to customers by Micronet Broadband, one of Pakistan's leading internet service providers said, 'Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has directed all ISPs of the country to block access to YouTube for containing blasphemous web content/movies'.

The website would remain blocked till further orders from PTA.

Micronet urged Internet users to 'write to YouTube to remove the objectionable web content/movies because this removal would enable the authorities to order un-blocking of this website'.

The blasphemous cartoons had triggered widespread protests across Pakistan when they were originally published. Pakistan's foreign ministry recently registered a strong protest with the Danish government against the republication of the cartoons in that country.

Source: http://us.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/23youtube.htm

[PakiRebel]

lol I knew there ware more to it than the "sudden" realization of blasphemous content on youtube.
If you guys visit any Pakistani blogs, or even youtube, you will notice that there are tonz of hidden camera videos of MQM thugs casting fake ballots in Karachi
So surprise surprise YOUTUBE has been blocked within few hours of those videos being published.
almost all the videos have now been removed from youtube but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbpWPoWeG_g
is still remaing I urge u all to watch it, as it will be taken off soon
however I have saved it

Haha...
Haqeeqat Chup Nahin Saktii PTA Kay Asoolon Say...Kay Inqilaab Aa Nahin Saktaa MQM Kii Bhoolon Say

[cr33d]

lol..

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2008-02...ck_N.htm?csp=34
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.


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.

resident 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.