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| YouTube to remain blocked 'indefinitely' in Pakistan |
| 2015-02-08 |
| [DAWN] YouTube will remain blocked 'indefinitely' in Pakistain, a government official said Saturday as experts failed to find a way to filter content deemed offensive and blasphemous. The video-sharing website has been blocked in the country since September 2012 over its hosting of the "Innocence of Moslems", a movie that sparked furious protests around the world. The Supreme Court ruled at the time that the site should be banned until a way was found to block all blasphemous content. "[The] matter was reviewed several times but the situation effectively remains the same," the minister for information technology and telecommunication Anusha Rehman told the Senate Friday. "The government does not want to take any chance and wants to make sure that after the unblocking YouTube, no offensive content remains viewable in Pakistain," a senior government official said. |
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