Pakistan blocks access to YouTube in internet crackdown

PK – Pakistan blocks access to YouTube in internet crackdown: (BBC)
Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube because of its ‘growing sacrilegious content’. Access to the social network Facebook has also been barred as part of a crackdown on websites seen to be hosting un-Islamic content. A Pakistani court ordered Facebook to be blocked because of a page inviting people to draw caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Some Wikipedia pages are also now being restricted, latest reports say.”

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