More than three years after it was banned for posting a
video deemed insulting to Islam, Pakistan has unblocked video sharing
site, YouTube. A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) official
confirmed that all internet service providers had been directed to open
access to YouTube.
The ban was lifted because Google, which owns
YouTube, had now launched a Pakistan-specific version, in which the
authorities can now filter content.
According to Pakistan's ministry of information technology:
"Google has provided an online web process through which requests for
blocking access of offending material can be made by the PTA to Google
directly and Google/YouTube will accordingly restrict access to the said
offending material for users within Pakistan."
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