Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy 275
On Saturday, Pakistan briefly lifted the months-old ban on YouTube, spurred by the widely distributed U.S.-made video presented as a trailer for a film titled "Innocence of Muslims" and decried in many places around the world as blasphemous toward Islam. "After months of criticism of the ban, the government decided to allow Pakistanis to have access to YouTube again, saying steps had been taken to ensure that offensive content would not be visible. But those efforts apparently failed, and the authorities quickly backtracked," writes the New York Times. "Quickly" is right: access to YouTube was apparently open for just three minutes, which seems about right; it shouldn't take longer than that to discover things on the site to which adherents of any particular religion might take umbrage. What's surprising is that this took lifting the censorship on a wide scale, rather than just taking a smaller peek through tunneling software.
Only 3 minutes!? (Score:5, Funny)
Even Pakistan has better broadband than we do.
[Sigh]
Re:Only 3 minutes!? (Score:4, Funny)
That's because they don't have to deal with the bandwidth of people downloading youtube videos.
Ban the Transistor! (Score:5, Funny)
The darn transistor is the root of all blasphemy. It should be banned from the nation-states of the faithful!
Re:Ban the Transistor! (Score:3, Funny)
I say the transistor is the will of God. We are now enemies.
Re:Ban the Transistor! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ban the Transistor! (Score:5, Funny)
My (likely--hopefully--erroneous) understanding of Islam is that everything is the will of Allah. If that's the case, then Allah wills blasphemy. Thus, it stands to reason that blasphemy doesn't exist, because (presumably) anything Allah does is holy.
I hope my understanding is wrong, because that's more insanity than I'm comfortable with.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm surprised it was up for a full 3 minutes.
Must... resist...
That's what SHE said!
Sorry, had to.
Re:Censorship backfire (Score:5, Funny)
Pakistan: "This content not available in your religion."