Saturday, February 23rd 2008
Pakistan Blocks YouTube
It seems that America and the United Kingdom aren't the only countries caught in a sudden desire to become authoritarian. Pakistan is blocking websites that they feel either will pervert their citizens culturally or politically. YouTube recently made the list for both reasons. There's plenty of sketchy X-rated material on the website, and it's cousin, X-tube. However, it's more likely than not that YouTube was blocked in Pakistan due to political footage. To be precise, someone managed to sneak proof of election fraud, in video form, onto YouTube. Pakistan obviously doesn't want anybody to see this, so they bury the video. When it comes bouncing back later, Pakistan got mad and completely blocked out the site.
Source:
All Things Pakistan
27 Comments on Pakistan Blocks YouTube
we see more idiot with video cameras doing stupid things example like assaulting a young retarded girl and posting it and thinking it’s funny yeh go YouTube.
It would be more difficult to do something like that in the US, as its' media machine would be all over the story, and then 10's of thousands of lawyers would be lining up to challenge it. That doesn't happen in other countries (or if it does, the lawyers/judges are arrested/imprisoned).
Not shocked at all.
What makes me mad is he is a president but is also a dictator. Bush and the US are backing him because he is important for the war on terror. A war, he doesnt really help us on. Anyways, Im not going to get into a political discussion and rant on this, but it doesnt surprise me that he or someone in his government did this.
Also, what happens to all the other sites that people can put any video on? Nothing.
Anyway, back on topic, YouTube (in general) should get a better grip on the tastefulness of their content. I'm all for free speech and expression, but kids can access YouTube daily and see some of the less responsible posts. I'm pretty sure that's not why Pakistan banned the site, but I would like to see YouTube step up a bit. (Rant is now complete)
Man gets arrested for walking dog in Tehran.
American woman arrested in Saudi for talking to a man in Starbucks.
Woman gets 200 lashings after being 7X gang-raped for talking to a man in a car.
Men publicly hanged for being gay.
This youtube censorship is nothing news-worthy.
Everytime you register for something, go shopping, visit websites, or pump your gas you are being tracked. Every e-mail, text, and call you make is tracked. Most companies call it some snazzy name like "Customer Service Improvement" or some shit like it. But you are being tracked, and then these companies build a profile of you they sell to other companies, or to the government, or to identity thieves.
epic.org/privacy/profiling/
There are multiple companies in addition to the large three credit reporting agencies that track your purchases, and many other aspects of your life if you are a American citizen, and that information is bought and sold by the government. You are a commodity, and will be treated as such.
If I can find the video on the internet I saw on Discovery a few weeks ago I will post a link. But there is a company in the easetern part of the US that has more computational power and storage than Google and houses millions on millions of profiles that your credit card companies, safeway card, bank, and many other places submit their information to to mine it for data so they can send you customized ads, and to find out what the market is doing. But the flip side is that all your purchases are tracked, and they are able to tell almost everything about you.
There indeed is very pseudo political system there, people trade power. You Tube just caught up in the whole tangle Pakistan's president created, of an extremely superficial, pseudo-political system. The elections were just an eye-wash for the world. No international media covers Pakistan better than Indian, so these are first hand accounts.
But I soo didn't want Mrs. Bhutto to die :shadedshu that lady was far more gutsy than any of the 'men' in power, she had what it took to set things right in that country.
i mean the incest people of course, not the terrorist and all the crazy folks!
This isnt a racist comment. Nor am i racist im quite happy to let them get on with what they belive in as long as it does'nt effect what i belive in as a british citizen.