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Pakistan banned YouTube, 2h global outage

Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-clip website YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies posted on the site, an official said yesterday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country’s 70 internet service providers that the popular website would be blocked until further notice. The authority did not specify what the offensive material was, but a PTA official said the ban concerned a trailer for an forthcoming film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The film portrays Islam as a fascist religion prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals. The unnamed official said the PTA had also blocked websites showing the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The drawings were originally printed in European newspapers in 2006, but were reprinted by some papers last week. The PTA urged internet users to write to YouTube and request the removal of the films, saying that the authorities would stop blocking the video-sharing site once that had happened.

What’s more, Pakistan’s attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for a near global blackout of the site on Sunday. The nearly two-hour long blackout was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and internet service provider PCCW. A leading net professional told BBC News: “This was probably a simple mistake by an engineer at Pakistan Telecom. There’s nothing to suggest this was malicious.” It is believed Pakistan Telecom “hijacked” the web server address of the popular video site. IP hijacking involves taking over a web site’s unique address by corrupting the internet’s routing tables, which direct the flow of data around the world.

Source: CNN, BBC 

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  1. derek
    February 25th, 2008 | 22:59

    It just occurred to me that slags sounds just a little bit fruity don’t you people think?

    Guys, males everywhere, better not wear the tight pants around slags! He may rape you! Don’t forget you’d be responsible too!

  2. dunderjit
    February 25th, 2008 | 23:15

    @3

    Your media, left, right and even centered, mainly falls mainly under one coporate umbrella, Sinclair Broadcasting Group SBG). SBG is a staunchly right wing organisation who also controls many of the purposely left viewed media in the USA. By their allowing left wing radicals (not just people who favour the left but those radical media nutjobs)into their media outlets, they in turn make it very easy to discredit the left wing enitrely on baseless arguments so they nefenit both ways.

    So, in essence, the right controls the left media too, and also decides what will be aired and what will not, after the White House has had its say of course. The White House itself censors most of the information put forth, public documents, embassy reports from overseas embassy’s that report on the state of affairs in third world countries (that’s easily proven in their website disclaimers too). New reports from around the world show one view, while America shows the same news clips yet with carefully edited comments to show only the nice side of teh interview. Ever since WWII, the White House has been censoring such information, though it is becoming far less of a propaganda match than it was 60 years ago. Again, this is readuily available public information, even the WhiteHouse.com admits it, as do many other countries. At that time it was expected, “Loose lips sink ships” but it did carry on to today with teh government being very careful abotu what is reported, of course they claim that it is protection of security but that just makes it acceptable to censor without being questioned as to freedoms.

    The point isn’t that the US is full of censorship but that the US if just as bad at censoring political messages, media and news(especially from the wars) as any other government, if not worse in some cases. Americans just don’t buy it, because they are told America is the only land of freedom there is. The FCC is like a chastity belt to the American TV viewer, if THEY don’t deem it worthy of your set, then you don’t get to watch it, whether you are mroe liberally minded toward it or not, you have to buy cable or satellite if you want to watch uncensored media.

    “America is the land of the free”: This of course discounts the fact that the US incarcerates more of its own citizens for failure to comply with strictly enforced law than any other country in the world.

    As for 48th, that isn’t exactly bragging rights, especially considering the source. A US based left wing organization who claims to be supporting free press, simply because their members aqre constantly censored from airing in the US. Their whole organization is 100% proof of my comments as it is. Why would there need to be such an organization in the US if the press was truly free to report it as they see it?

    It is also headed by a member of Associated Press (AP is behind all the scams, shams and BS media stories, as well as some of the truth of course), he is biased toward Asian reports himself though.

    I would go on but there’s not much point, it’s black and white, you just have to take your head out of the sand and start questioning what THEY say for once. You live in a free country, use that freedom to question the government, to question what the media says, to question what the mainstream claim.

    No it’s not Nazi Germany, but it sure as hell isn’t straight up either.

  3. dunderjit
    February 25th, 2008 | 23:16

    Above comment for #34 not 3, typo.

  4. Alisteir Yelworc
    February 25th, 2008 | 23:38

    Hi All,
    Ok, I don’t ever really comment on rlslog. That said, I thought I would this time, seeing as everyone else has had a go…

    The points made on whether ideological censorship is justified, whether it be Pakistan or American or European or whatever seems slightly misguided. Surely the point is that as rational beings we should all be able to make our own minds up. This cannot be done when the pool of information available is restricted.

    Understandably vested interests choose to shape the information which civil society has at its disposal to perpetuate hegemonic rule. This is case in all polities, without exception.

    The Internet, as such, is an invaluable resource for information which can be used without frontiers to auto educate ourselves so as to make rational value judgments on contentious / non contentious issues.

    The attempts of governments to restrict the flow of information by ‘blocking’ certain parts of the web are fruitless for those with a little resourcefulness who can work around these blocks pretty easily.

    The real ‘problem’ is a way of existing underpinned by self censorship which is engendered and created , in part, by asymmetrical power structures through the function of disciplinary based discourses and, increasingly, states of constant surveillance. (see Foucault for more on this)

    Anyway, its good to see that this thread is as active as it is and that people are free to voice their opinions.

    PS: @105 (you’ve been reading Chomsky I see? :) ;P

    };->

  5. dan
    February 25th, 2008 | 23:41

    Name me one jew who blew himself up because of something his rabbi told him.

    name me one christian who blew up a Mosque because he did not believe in the same God

    name me one other religion that slaughtered people for daring to say something against their prophet.

    Name me one other religion that kidnaps innocent people and then beheads them for no reason other then their mad thirst for power.

    Name me one other religion that is activly seeking to dominate the world and will wage war on anyone who does not agree with them.

    I can name one religion that does this and more…Islam

  6. trådar
    February 25th, 2008 | 23:59
  7. |\|`/(
    February 26th, 2008 | 00:04

    “Iranian Man Sentenced to 4 Months in Jail, 30 Lashes for Walking Dog”

    Aren’t Islamic countries great?

  8. Pat Condell
    February 26th, 2008 | 00:17

    Religion is the Root of All Evil…And in this time in History only Islam threatens the way I want to continue live…WAKE UP

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI5WoXpmPiM

  9. dunderjit
    February 26th, 2008 | 00:25

    @DAN #108

    Before you go preaching how righteous other religions are, ESPECIALLY Christianity, have yuo forgotten the crusades?

    If you didn’t follow Christianity you were forced to follow Christianity or your town was burned down, your women raped and the children were put to work as slaves, at the very best that is. Christianity has a VERY dark side, it is just so easily forgotten by those who feel their chosen religion is all about happiness and brotherhood.

    No, Chistians don’t go crusading anymore, they have no need to since most of the world they sought to conquer (new British Colonies etc) was forced to adopt Christian values. Then when Christians left Europe to found America those values were brought to the US too, and to this day your president quotes his own core values and relates them to Christianity, quietly acknowledging America’s core base is Christian beliefs, even when speaking out against Iraq’s religious followings (a true no no for a president of a nation which actually believes it is multicultural).

    I have known many Bhuddists and Muslims, they were also far more reserved and more peaceful and spiritual with their religious beliefs than most Christians, Jews etc. that I know.

    Religion isn’t the source of such issues, people’s interpretation of a religion is teh problem. That’s why some feel Jesus walked on water, other translations state he walked beside water. It’s all in the translation and interpretation, the intent is never know unless you know the original author, I think the bible was written before Stephen King became popular so we are left with a good book, written in a foreign language and a bunch or interpreters who read something else into it than what was originally intended. Bible’s a bit dry but a good read all the same.

  10. Dorje
    February 26th, 2008 | 00:31

    The wheels start to fall of another RLS thread.

    @89 wasim – sounds reasonable.

    @88 Hazizk agrees with 78 muratiff – and they both wonder why ppl think Islam is not so peaceful. #33 is just a flametard who got your goats. The video is a cheap piece of junk much like the 911 conspiracy vids. But I’d say islamic terrorists are making the case that “Islam is not a religion of peace” every day. And don’t they invoke the name of “god” as they trip the fuses and chop the heads. The Jihadis are just 600 years behind the crusaders. Same sh!t different century. Two wrongs never make a right.

    Hundreds of Jews died in 911. Did they just not get the special zionist plot text/phone message?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqWs8pAsRk

    Lets quit blaming the f@cking Jews. Here’s a little for instance: The Blood Libel was created by the Catholic Church to justify the pogroms of the middle ages. The Church has since admitted this was totally false and had no basis in fact whatsoever. The story was fabricated by a christian monk in the 12th century. But every year during Ramadan arab families gather together around the tv set to watch a modern retelling of the evil jew’s ritual sacrifice of a young christian boy. A TV series calledAl-Shatat. Now that’s lovely holiday family entertainment! And a great way to raise haters. Good old medieval brain-washing fun.

    If we all don’t stop beleiving the lies handed down from generation to generation there’s not much hope.

    Lets blame Canada. lol You know they are all hopped up on beer and maple sugar laced bacon plotting world domination by feigning polite consideration for others.

    @96 leeching_slags – maybe it’s time to stfu lol
    @100 Youtube Pakistan – great idea man. That will really help
    @104 derek – I think you can put that strap-on back in your pants now rofl

    Lets go see what kind of tripe Mr. X thinks is post-worthy tonight. Maybe he’s got some Pakistani TV :)

  11. Religion = Fail + AIDS
    February 26th, 2008 | 00:41

    Compare the treatment of Muslims in western foreign countries to Christians treatment in Muslim countries(no comparison)…Those Hypocrites

    Example Egypt 3parts :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36TNd3c0K8Q

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpOKKjaTAKQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1WhNwN5qk

    Religion = Fail + AIDS… specially ISLAM

  12. jojo
    February 26th, 2008 | 00:56

    Any religion that cannot tolerate critiscism has serious problems. A few cartoons or comments and Muslim’s fly off the handle spouting death and destruction. Get a life, it is only a fake religion like the rest of them.

    OOOOOH a Teddybear named Mohammed could bring down the entire Muslim world, we must destroy the woman who named it that (actually it was the kids.. surprised they didn’t butcher the kids, they’ve never been shy about raping and murdering kids before).

    FACT Mohammed married his CHILD bride and had SEX with her when she was 9, it is written in the Koran. Mohammed was a bloody pedo!!

  13. unknown
    February 26th, 2008 | 01:05

    @41

    Well because everytime u come up with a new version of the testament
    I wouldn’t be surprised to see tomorrow “Testament version 3, includes all updates to match your modern needs”

  14. leeching_slags
    February 26th, 2008 | 01:33

    @115. Another idiot

    Firstly the marriage of aisha and muhammad (pbuh) was actually the idea of aisha’s father and muhammad’s (pbuh) close friend.
    We are talking about a time over 1,400 years ago.
    At this time it was common place for girls to be married this young, Child brides as young as 8 were common among the Byzantine emperors and nobility.

    Also, the age consent in the US and Europe only 100 years ago for girls marriage was as little as 10.

    Also the life expectancy was also far shorter during that period around 40-50 years.

    The only reason why the males were older was to fulfill the primary obligation of marriage that being able to provide for you wife and family.

    Finally Aisha loved her husband greatly and was a source for many of the records of his actions/practices.

    Now I have really had enough of trying to educate some of you inbreds. Pick up a damn book read some history and learn something

  15. Aavin
    February 26th, 2008 | 01:48

    hay all
    Peace

    tolerence
    i believe muslims have newer insulted any other religon but they r very sensitive about there religion…
    and one thing for my muslim friends..there r people who tease u and try to make u angry.
    there are rational people eerywhere, i guess u should remain calm and if protest as its ur right be don’t let it be violent ….
    regards to all those people who believe in tolerence and respect..

  16. er3
    February 26th, 2008 | 02:29

    @115 jojo (son of a bit..h)
    mother fuc..r bast.rd & all anti islamics.
    All west peoples exploiter & my dictators exploiter.
    You very miserable coz u chicken hearted.

    and sorry courteous people

  17. paki
    February 26th, 2008 | 03:11

    well they have blocked youtube cuz there were videos on youtube that showed teh rigging in election in pakistan.

  18. fhmy
    February 26th, 2008 | 03:57

    mod pls close this
    no religions fight in rlslog plz.

  19. TitoMakesMeJuicy
    February 26th, 2008 | 03:59

    What a funny thread. Pakistans government blocks one of the most popular sites because of a single clip and yet the US gets dragged into the discussion in the first few posts. You people are obsessed with us. You want to make sweet love to the USA. You want to be impregnated by the USA! Its like a deep rooted fantasy where you guys act like you hate the US, but deep down you cant stop thinking about US. Now get on your knees and tell me you love me, you filthy animals!

  20. Dorje
    February 26th, 2008 | 04:00

    lol @117leeching_slags & 119er3

    115 says “Any religion that cannot tolerate critiscism has serious problems” and you guys quickly prove him right. Sure the Pedo comment was classless but so was your rudeness.

    Is it possible to have sex with a 9 year old? I guess if you have a really small unit. he he. That’s called a joke. Can you handle it?

  21. miffed
    February 26th, 2008 | 05:20

    #25&21- The west is a free country. People here protest the goverment freely without fear of harm. It’s called freedom of speech, something all humans deserve!!! If you believe it is okay to live in a world were it’s okay to have the goverment censor your freedoms, you might be on the wrong website… as last time i checked, downloading movies was illegal EVERYWHERE!

  22. Faiz
    February 26th, 2008 | 05:31

    RLSLOG Mods Pls Close this No Religious FIGHT .
    & PLZZZ RLSLOG PLS DONT POST RELGIOUS TOPICS.

    PEACE.

  23. derek
    February 26th, 2008 | 05:31

    lol @122 – most of rlslog does indeed have a hard-on for the US, they are just in denial… especially slags and dunderjit!

    Seriously though, why not start comparing every other international civil issue to Canada or some other country? even though we really do enjoy your jealousy and mindless hate so much… you should still share the wealth!

  24. random
    February 26th, 2008 | 05:43

    westerns are like so obsessed with Islam, guys your pathetic get over it and get a life

  25. Avtaar
    February 26th, 2008 | 05:50

    i don’t know what the f**k is going on around here, but i for one won’t be sharing my weed with anyone anymore.

  26. ....
    February 26th, 2008 | 06:14

    proven facts:
    “According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the World Christian Database as of 2007 estimated the six fastest growing religions of the world to be Islam (1.84%), the Bahá’í Faith (1.7%), Sikhism (1.62%), Jainism (1.57%), Hinduism (1.52%), and Christianity (1.32%). High birth rates were cited as the reason for the growth.[12].”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_be_the_fastest_growing_religion
    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3835
    http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/14/egypt.islam/

  27. miffed
    February 26th, 2008 | 06:50

    you all make me feel like yelling “alalalalalalalalalalalaalalalaalaalaalala…”

  28. dan
    February 26th, 2008 | 06:55

    dunderjit
    February 26th, 2008 | 00:25
    @DAN #108

    Before you go preaching how righteous other religions are, ESPECIALLY Christianity, have yuo forgotten the crusades?
    —————
    Nope, and I will be the first in line to say that was wrong and that an apology should be given. Nor am I saying that other religions have not done some pretty sorry things. But I AGAIN say the exact same thing I said earlier. Name me ONE religion that does all that I stated, other then Islam. name me ONE religion that to this day allows stoning a person to death other then Islam. You really need to wake up and see the documentary “Islam, what the west should know.” It uses sections from the life of islam’s “prophet” as well as from it’s own holy book that clearly shows that it calls for the death of unbelievers and a jihad on the world until it comes under the sway of Islam.

    No, other religions have done some pretty bad things, but NO religion I know of other then Islam calls for the deaths of unbelievers directly in their holy books. Not even the Bible or the Torah or other religions do this. I mean for crying out loud, even the Satanists bible states that you should not kill an innocent person, yet Islam not only says this but demands it and preaches it in most of their Mosques.

  29. dan
    February 26th, 2008 | 07:04

    leeching_slags
    February 26th, 2008 | 01:33
    @115. Another idiot

    Firstly the marriage of aisha and muhammad (pbuh) was actually the idea of aisha’s father and muhammad’s (pbuh) close friend.
    We are talking about a time over 1,400 years ago.
    At this time it was common place for girls to be married this young, Child brides as young as 8 were common among the Byzantine emperors and nobility.

    Also, the age consent in the US and Europe only 100 years ago for girls marriage was as little as 10.
    —————
    EHHHH, WRONG!!!! The age of concent for girls to marry was no less then 13 or 14 and has been that since Europeans came out of the caves. Once a girl started to menstrate, then and ONLY then was she considered for marriage, and even then she had to have a dowery. if the family of the groom could not produce a dowery in trade for her, then there was no wedding. Somehow it got turned around and the family of the bride started having to produce the dowery but that di not happen until the middle ages.

    Dont even try to correct me on this, History was one of my majors in College and I was on the Dean’s list each time for this as my GPA never dropped below 4.0

    In short I have forgot more about history in the time you have been on earth then you will ever know in your entire life.

  30. Poppa!
    February 26th, 2008 | 07:09

    @35 leeching_slags
    Quoting from Nochnoy dozor (2004):

    [Vampiress Larisa (read Phakistani b1tch) holds Yegor hostage, threatening to bite his neck]
    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: You, the ‘Light’ ones, the ‘kind’ ones, who’ve decided they have a right to protect the world from Darkness. Where were you when they drank my blood? Why can’t I do that now?
    Anton Gorodetsky: Because I won’t let you.

  31. Dorje
    February 26th, 2008 | 07:18

    I would note that while Europe was suffering the genocide of the Catholic Church known as the Inquisition (they killed way more ppl than the Nazis as they had a few hundred years to do it). Arab countries at that time were advanced centers of learning, science, astronomy and medicine. Then Islam decided to get all fundamental and the Islamic version of dark ages desended. Ain’t religion great!!!

  32. Poppa!
    February 26th, 2008 | 07:52

    What more can you expect from Phakistan! When a Phakistani aid-worker woman Mukhtaran Mai got brutally raped (and she was’nt wearing any revealing dress), president Musharraf said Phaki women wants to get raped to attract western media’s attention!

    Why Phakistan is the hotbed of terrorist training? Why most of the top class terrorist training camps are all in Phakistan? Why just a few days ago the Iranian govt. gave death sentence to man for drinking wine in public? Why 87% of Phakistani boy aged 10-12 thinks that the India, Israel and Western world is busy conspiring against them and they must do their own part no matter how small that is to take some revenge against the infidel?

    The answer my friend is in Sharia Law and Islam. Let there be peace in the mind of every Phaki.

  33. Shahwani
    February 26th, 2008 | 10:45

    I use Transit World internet in Pakistan and the youtube is NOT banned the only page of youtube that got banned is this one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3s8jtvvg00

    So please fix your news whole website is not blocked.

  34. nauman
    February 26th, 2008 | 11:00
  35. Proud Muslim
    February 26th, 2008 | 13:06

    Reality..I think you better change your name to ” Big Liar “.
    I live in Saudi Arabia and I can confirm that the lie about stoning a raped girl didn’t happen.

    Oh… forgot to mention your fabricated video on youtube is full of lies as well, but nice music though.

  36. Proud Muslim
    February 26th, 2008 | 13:42

    #118
    Thank you friend.

  37. leeching_slags
    February 26th, 2008 | 16:02

    @132 Dan

    Read this you cretin:-

    http://www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberone.htm

    State of california raised it from ten to fourteen in 1889, only over 1000 years later than the time of the prophet.

    I think you should get a refund from you college and slap your dean for not teaching you the basics such as backing up you argument.

    And I am personally a Masters student in Electrical Engineering at one of the top Universities in the UK so your feeble statistics do not impress me at all.

    Unlike you when I write, I write with the facts and history in mind. Not my emotions.

  38. Proud Muslim
    February 26th, 2008 | 16:29

    #140
    Yeah that was well backed up. Nice clarification.

    #132 I think you better go and study your history again because you missed a lot of valuable information.

  39. Knbsdf
    February 26th, 2008 | 16:44

    Pakistan is not a real country it didn’t exist until 1947, it’s just a part of India. Pakistani’s are just plain Indian Muslims. PERIOD. apart from that they are EXACTLY THE SAME AS INDIANS.
    To show how ridiculous religion is and how it is made up fantasy, Islam didn’t exist when Ceasar was ruling the world from the Senate and library of Rome, Arabds were just real arabs back then not Islam didn’t exist.

  40. to-sir
    February 26th, 2008 | 17:19

    Islam existed right from the beginning of humanity. The first Muslims were Adam and Eve(peace be upon them). Then all prophets came with the message of Islam, but later it was corrupted by human beings. Like how Jesus(peace be upon him) brought the message of Islam ,of one God ,later was diluted by making a prophet as son of God while God has no wife ,son or daughter.

  41. Poppa!
    February 26th, 2008 | 19:26

    Yeah, god only likes to have illegitimate childs – fatherless bast4rds. ;)

  42. The Deviant
    February 26th, 2008 | 19:32

    All I have to say is this… I couldn’t give a damn if you insult Jesus, Satan, Muhammed – peace be upon him – or anything like that. At the end of the day, freedom of speech is freedom of speech. If you’re insulted by it, don’t look at it, simple as. No need to prevent everyone from viewing it. Also no reason to go burning flags. I’ll respect your rights to have your beliefs and your views. You also have to respect that of others.

    No one in their right mind is saying that all Muslims are terrorists, unless they’re naive. At the end of the day, the only ones dropping bombs and starting wars over oil is America. I don’t know enough about the Israel/Palestine war to comment on that however. I know quite a few Muslims and they’re great people, no different from anyone else ‘cept they go to a mosque instead of a church. That said, I also know one who stated that “911 was a great” and how she hopes to see the west fall. But that said, I also know a hell of a lot of white “Christian’s” who preach “white power”…

  43. Dorje
    February 26th, 2008 | 21:41

    Riligiots – My god has a bigger d!ck than yours lol

  44. Dorje
    February 26th, 2008 | 22:11

    ooooops, thought those posts were being rejected for my spelling of meat puppet. sorry bout that. Sure took a while for them to come up. Maybe they had to go via japan first

  45. rtyecript
    August 24th, 2011 | 22:19

    I really liked the article, and the very cool blog

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