Pakistan’s PTA Bans YouTube – Poll Rigging Videos

Sunday, February 24, 2008 0:02 | This post has been viewed 1,191 times
Posted in category Internet, Islam, Pakistan, Politics, Videos

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a memorandum to the country’s ISPs to block access to the video sharing website YouTube for allegedly featuring a blasphemous video.

According to the Pakistani “Don’t Block The Blog” there are two theories that could explain PTA’s recent move to ban YouTube: vote rigging videos showing alleged evidence of election fraud in Karachi and a blasphemous video disgracing Prophet Mohammed.

I don’t honestly think Musharraf or anyone else for that matter cares about the blasphemous video disgracing Prophet Muhammad because every now and then there is a new video full of crap being virally marketed somewhere on the internet. I think the YouTube ban in Pakistan has more to do with the poll rigging videos like this one:

There is no way anyone could authenticate something like this and I honestly don’t think this ban would keep the world media away from something as controversial as poll rigging. I mean, this video is a smoking gun case against the Pakistani government but I still don’t see the point of the ban.

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5 Responses to “Pakistan’s PTA Bans YouTube – Poll Rigging Videos”

  1. Pakistan’s PTA Bans YouTube - Poll Rigging Videos | PakQuest - News Aggregator says:

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  2. Raza says:

    February 24th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    The ban is laughable, and speaks volumes for the kind of thinking prevalent among the chiefs of our government institutions.

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    February 24th, 2008 at 7:32 am

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  4. Accounting Fraud says:

    March 27th, 2008 at 2:32 am

    You can’t thrust in the legitimacy of elections…

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