Bangladesh lifts ban on YouTube, blocked after blasphemous film

Ban has been lifted because it was hurting thousands of people using YouTube for research, education, says Sunil Bose.


Reuters June 05, 2013
PHOTO: FILE

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted a ban on video-sharing site YouTube which has been blocked since September after an online anti-Islam movie spawned violent protests across the Muslim world.

The sacrilegious  video that denigrated the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), billed as a film trailer and made in California with private funding, provoked a wave of anti-American unrest in dozens of Muslim countries in September.

"The ban has been lifted as it was hurting thousands of people who use YouTube for good purposes such as educational or research," said Sunil Kanti Bose, head of Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory body.

Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sudan and Pakistan banned YouTube simultaneously.

COMMENTS (3)

Ali | 11 years ago | Reply

Very good to know that the Bengalis have atleast some sense.of progress left in them.

gp65 | 11 years ago | Reply

SO now Pakistan is in the August company of Sudan and Afghanistan.

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