May
20
Pakistan Blocked the Facebook and YouTube
Pakistan has restricted access to a number of sites as part of a crackdown on websites viewed as hosting anti-Islamic material.
Social network facebook was temporarily blocked in the country on Wednesday, in reaction to a competition held on the site that concerned caricatures of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (saww). Although the BBC reports that the competition sparked numerous protests in Pakistan, facebook said that the content did not violate its terms, stating:
“While the content does not violate our terms, we do understand it may not be legal in some countries.
“In cases like this, the approach is sometimes to hamper certain content from being shown in particular countries.”
Further to the facebook annoyance, Pakistan blocked video sharing site YouTube, citing its “growing sacrilegious content” as grounds. The site was previously blocked in Pakistan two years ago, after videos it hosted were deemed to be hateful to Muslim viewers.
It is unclear whether Pakistan will seek to block these sites permanently, and whether users will be able to find ways around these restrictions despite the consequences. That certainly seems to be the idea of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, which has ordered internet service providers in the country to “completely shut down” the offending websites.
According to the PTA’s statement, the authority “has thus far blocked more than 450 links on the internet containing derogatory material.”
It is a admirable action of Pak’s Government to block this website because although facebook has declared that these material is not its violation of restriction but it is noticed, when we report any page to facebook owners, there are many options are appeared on page. Attacks on specific group and vulgar language are also conditions on facebook’s laws. So as Muslim, I raise a question this group is attacking on the Believes of hundreds Muslim then why facebook is not taking step against that group.
Is facebook is becoming backbone in front of this group and playing the role as Anti-Muslim Web?
This question is very important and it is also raising in every Muslim user…………………….. !
