I request the authorities to lift the ban on YouTube so that everybody is able to benefit from this electronic library
JAFFERABAD: It is time that the government realised that no ban on information will work because any bans of the sort are both foolish and useless. As a result of the YouTube ban in Pakistan, informative and academic videos are no longer available to aspirants of higher education and we are effectively prohibiting the spread of knowledge and information.
In this technological world, it is possible to circumvent and bypass these filters very easily, so the ban will of course not help. I request the authorities to lift the ban on YouTube so that everybody is able to benefit from this electronic library.
Khalid Ahmed
Published in The Express Tribune, May 10th, 2014.
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