Thank GOD we live in a free society this is what Pakistan thinks there problem is they are insane??

(May 20) -- Pakistan has blocked access to some of the Internet's most popular websites -- including YouTube and Wikipedia -- over what it calls "sacrilegious" content.

The move comes a day after the government blocked Facebook because a page on the social networking site encouraged users to post drawings of Islam's Prophet Muhammad -- which Muslims consider blasphemous.
Islamic law prohibits any images of the prophet, and Muslims across the world staged angry protests when satirical cartoons of Muhammad appeared in European newspapers in 2005. Scores died in riots in dozens of countries.
A statement from the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, quoted by several news agencies, says the government blocked YouTube and Facebook after the two websites failed to remove "derogatory material." It cited "growing sacrilegious contents" on YouTube but didn't elaborate. It also didn't explain why Wikipedia and the photo sharing site Flickr are also part of the ban.
The Facebook ban is the result of legal action by an Islamic lawyers association in Lahore, which won a court injunction Wednesday against the site. The ban is supposed to run through the end of the month, but it's unclear whether that's also the case for other sites.
A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan, Wahaj us Siraj, told Agence France-Presse that the YouTube ban would last indefinitely.
This is the second time Pakistan has blocked YouTube. The site was briefly banned in February 2008 because of a similar protest against Muhammad cartoons.
About 11 percent of Pakistanis have access to the Internet, according to the World Bank. The global figure is 24 percent, and in the United States, it's 76 percent.



Blocking YouTube and Facebook alone will slash up to a quarter of all Internet traffic in Pakistan, said Siraj, who is also the CEO of a leading Pakistani Internet provider, Nayatel.



He said that once the government issued an order to block YouTube, all service providers were required to comply. "They ordered the full YouTube site blocked. So that order was implemented by the Internet service providers and Internet backbone providers," Siraj said.

WOW I DONT THINK THIS IS PAKISTANS PROBLEM BUT IF THEY WANT TO BLAME IT ON SOMETHING WHY NOT BLAME IT ON THE YOUTH WHO WANT TO ESCAPE THE TYRANNY OF A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT BY SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH YOUTUBE AND HAVING FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK.................SMH