Pakistan Youtube Ban

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif will decide the fate of social media platforms such as YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok during the Muharram festival as Pak's Punjab government sought a ban on them, citing need to control "hate material.

The Pakistan government is now set to ban all social media platforms -- YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok -- for six days from July 13 to 18, citing the need to control "hate material" during the Islamic month of Ramadan.

Twenty YouTube Channels and two websites have been blocked for spreading anti-India propaganda, the Centre said today.

TikTok ban was lifted again in Pakistan, this time after four months, following assurances from the popular Chinese video-sharing service that it would control the spread of indecent content.

The Supreme Court in 2012 had ordered a ban on the site after the "Innocence of Muslims" was uploaded.

Pakistan said on Monday it had removed a three-year ban on YouTube after the Google-owned video-sharing website launched a local version that allows the government to remove material it considers offensive.

Content on the local site can still be regulated, and a senior government official told AFP Wednesday.

An editorial "Fixing YouTube" in The Nation said that after being consigned to the annals of obscurity, "the YouTube ban has once more been brought to the fore".

The PPP government had banned YouTube in September 2012 after a movie that was deemed blasphemous was uploaded.

The non-binding resolution that was nonetheless welcomed by free speech advocates as an important symbolic move.

Pakistan's National Assembly today unanimously adopted a resolution seeking to lift the ban on popular video-sharing website YouTube, nineteen months after it was blocked in the country for blasphemous content.

The video-sharing website has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012 over its failure to take down the "Innocence of Muslims" movie.

ToffeeTV has hit an unexpected snag. The Internet startup depended on YouTube to promote "Hokey-Pokey," ''The Umm Nyum Nyum Song" and other language-teaching clips it produces for children, but the video-sharing website has been banned in Pakistan for nearly a year.

Pakistan has cracked down on "immoral" love chat services offered by mobile phone companies, stifling hopes of illicit romance in the conservative Muslim country where dating is frowned upon.

In a dingy Internet cafe, Abdullah gets round the censors with one click and logs onto YouTube, officially banned for a year and at the heart of Pakistan's cyberwar for control of the web.

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif will decide the fate of social media platforms such as YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok during the Muharram festival as Pak's Punjab government sought a ban on them, citing need to control "hate material.

The Pakistan government is now set to ban all social media platforms -- YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok -- for six days from July 13 to 18, citing the need to control "hate material" during the Islamic month of Ramadan.

Twenty YouTube Channels and two websites have been blocked for spreading anti-India propaganda, the Centre said today.

TikTok ban was lifted again in Pakistan, this time after four months, following assurances from the popular Chinese video-sharing service that it would control the spread of indecent content.

The Supreme Court in 2012 had ordered a ban on the site after the "Innocence of Muslims" was uploaded.

Pakistan said on Monday it had removed a three-year ban on YouTube after the Google-owned video-sharing website launched a local version that allows the government to remove material it considers offensive.

Content on the local site can still be regulated, and a senior government official told AFP Wednesday.

An editorial "Fixing YouTube" in The Nation said that after being consigned to the annals of obscurity, "the YouTube ban has once more been brought to the fore".

The PPP government had banned YouTube in September 2012 after a movie that was deemed blasphemous was uploaded.

The non-binding resolution that was nonetheless welcomed by free speech advocates as an important symbolic move.

Pakistan's National Assembly today unanimously adopted a resolution seeking to lift the ban on popular video-sharing website YouTube, nineteen months after it was blocked in the country for blasphemous content.

The video-sharing website has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012 over its failure to take down the "Innocence of Muslims" movie.

ToffeeTV has hit an unexpected snag. The Internet startup depended on YouTube to promote "Hokey-Pokey," ''The Umm Nyum Nyum Song" and other language-teaching clips it produces for children, but the video-sharing website has been banned in Pakistan for nearly a year.

Pakistan has cracked down on "immoral" love chat services offered by mobile phone companies, stifling hopes of illicit romance in the conservative Muslim country where dating is frowned upon.

In a dingy Internet cafe, Abdullah gets round the censors with one click and logs onto YouTube, officially banned for a year and at the heart of Pakistan's cyberwar for control of the web.