Pakistani officials have announced that the government has blocked all access to the popular video-sharing site
YouTube because there have been a few anti-Islamic videos posted on the site.
The
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) notified all 70 Pakistani ISPs that access to the site is to be blocked indefinitely.
The PTA revealed that the ban was mainly due to a "trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has said he plans to release an anti-Quran movie portraying the religion as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals." Governement officials would not elaborate further.
The group also urged YouTube fans to write to the site and request the removal of all "objectionable movies" saying that the government would unblock the site once the movies were taken down.
The banning follows recent decisions
by Turkey and
Morocco to block access to the video sharing site, both for similar reasons as Pakistan.
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