Pakistan versus the Internet: YouTube blocked

Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) is also banned.Recommend

These kind of actions should have been done proactively…. but so far so goood… That should be the spirit.. !!Recommend

What we can’t see or read won’t hurt us..

Today u-tube, facebook, flickr, gmail, Blackberry Service..

Tomorrow ???

Where are the courts when we kill our own people for political control of a city????Recommend

This is hardly a solution, blocking these sites is like fresh icing on a rotten cake.Recommend

im amazed at the ignoranceRecommend

huh. Another stupid decision.Recommend

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) is banned too.Recommend

Okay !! i was trying to understand the decision of LHC to ban facebook and hardly convinced myself that it was right..
but Lo!!!! youtube and wikipedia ????
for Goodness sake, these are informative websites, not a wastage of time at all..
and what’s next on the list of surprises ???
YAHOO ?? MSN ??? GOOGLE??
BAN the internet.. !! :))
what say U ?? lol
stupidity at its best..Recommend

I am amazed at the Pakistani public’s reaction to this travesty more than anything else. It seems that we live in a society where you can ban anything in the name of Islam and people will come out in hordes in support and solidarity. It reminds me of an incident in Saudi Arabia when Shah Abdul Aziz wanted to install the kingdom’s first Radio Station and the muftis of the era deemed it the devil’s box decreeing that the wooden box was occupied by Satan who would speak in human voices. To resolve the issue Shah Abdul Aziz got the imam of the mosque in medina to recite verses of the Quran in the microphone and transmit it to Makah for the rest of the clergy to listen to. He then posed a question to the holy men that if Satan was in the box then why would he be reciting the Holy Quran and so beautifully at that. This is where our country seems to be at the moment where we are only too happy to shoot the messenger. I would plead with all these people to search the number of Islamic videos on youtube and consider joining all the Muhammad fan clubs on facebook and then decide if it is productive to ban the entire internet based on 5 people’s hurtful comments. Also it is a slippery slope that the high court is advocating and I suspect the government will seize this initiative in the name of Islam to ban anything it deems offensive to itself. The people of this country need to be sensible and mature in order to defend our hard earned right to freedom of speech. If we let the government ban Wikipedia, Youtube and facebook soon we will be back to the 80’s era of PTV and government controlled media. All in the name of Islam.Recommend

Hassan…….are u high on something?Recommend

GMAIL is NOT blocked and neither is Google.

Wikipedia (English version) is blocked. You can’t do anything but visit the opening page of Wikipedia.

Youtube, Flickr also blocked by PTCL and TW-1Recommend

Good decision on time to block the sites but in mean time we have to prepare our selfs to reply them on same site the real picture of ISLAM and spread the message of our Holy prophet using same plate form . we can win them by using the teaching of holy prophet.Recommend

Non-Muslims should not do cheap action .Every country has a right to block such sites.Recommend

Just imagine if they insulted our parents, what wud our reaction be? If we are Muslims, we r supposed to love our Prophet more than our parents. Support to ban facebook is the least we can do.Recommend

how do we reply. its banned. there was an anti draw Muhammad (SAW) page. lot of those members are now banned. some people planned to delete their accounts in protest. they cant because they cannot connect to the site. Allah will deal with those who ridicule our Prophet (SAW). Inshallah we will prevail but this is not the way to fight.Recommend

Wikipedia is working …Recommend

wow,,, I am amazed at people who cannot stay away from Facebook even for a few days..People saying that it was a wrong decision to block these websites,they should be ashamed, nobody is asking to shut down the entire internet , but this was a good decision. Out of all the Muslim countries, only Pakistani government had the guts to ban these websites. Wikipedia had PBUH sketches, so it is good that they banned it too. I guess losers like you need Facebook for so called social networking.
yes it is true that we Muslims need to have self control. We should be the ones not visiting these websites and nobody should force us to boycott these websites. But why do you think we had Caliphs in earlier times??Why has god said that if a person steals his hands should be cut??Does he not have self control. So people it is the duty of the government to see if the nation is doing wrong. And for the first time this government is taking decisions it should have taken long before…Recommend

Salam,

Dear all,

How many websites are we going to block before we realize that we actually have to do something instead of sitting back and just blocking these websites? When will be realize that we have to use these very platforms to spread good things about Islam and our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW)? Where is this Islamic Lawyer’s group when leaked pictures of Pakistani girls are posted on porn websites? Why doesn’t PTA block pornographic material? When will we stop blindly jumping on the bandwagon and for once actually do something in Honor of our Prophet (SAW)?

Regards,

Ahmad B.Recommend

@shifa..i agree with master too!!!Recommend

Sadly in the fight against oppression there are casualties. This event was rough around the edges so to speak, but the intent behind it was sincere. Always stand up to the bullies on the playground. They need to be ‘taught’ how to behave by the rest of us.

Sometimes you have to respond in a manner that the other side can take notice of regardless of how banal and crude other people think it may have been. They took notice that people were standing up to their tyrannical antisocial expectations put upon the rest of us by them.

The first page received up to 100,000 supporters prior to being removed, the 2nd page was up to 14,500 supporters before it was also removed.
The ‘protest’ was a huge success, no one had acid splashed into their faces, no one had their hands cut off with swords, and no one was bombed by a homicide bomber.
We [atheists, Pagans, Xians, Hindus, & Buddhists] all exercised our right to freedom of expression in the face of “Hate Speech Mongers” who masquerade as a “Religion of Peace”.

It was done. That is what was important.Recommend

People i just checked Google has images of the Prophet (PBUH)….so what now… LHC will ban Google as well…?Recommend