YouTube Pakistan, Pakistan Gov Blocked YouTube, Facebook

PakistanGovernment blocked a famous site YouTube on Thursday in case of“sacrilegious” content in a growing internet crackdown against sitesdeemed offensive to the Pakistan`s majority Muslim population.
This comes in the backdrop of Pakistan Telecommunications Authority(PTA) ban on the popular social networking website Facebook after acontroversy surrounding the website hosting an event promotingcaricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) blocked access toFacebook on a strict court order over a competition created by Facebookuser who set up a page called ‘Draw Mohammed Day’.
Pakistani government acted against both Facebook and YouTube afterit failed to persuade the websites to remove the “derogatory material.”
Access to the online encyclopedia site Wikipedia and the photosharing site Flickr was also restricted today. YouTube was also blockedin the country in 2007 for about a year what it called un-Islamicvideos and pictures.