[governance] Fw: [pakistanictpolicy] Pakisan Blocks YouTube again?

[Shahzad Ahmad]

Forwarded from Pakistan ICT Policy List. 

The Saga is to not let people see, President saying Shut Up to the audience in one of his public speech :)

The rumors of further blocking social media sites is depressing. People are panicking taking backups... worrying indeed.

best wishes and regards
Shahzad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Awab Alvi"
To: "Pakistan Policy group" <pakistanictpolicy at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:33 PM
Subject: [pakistanictpolicy] Zardari's YouTube video blocked


> Salam
>
> Last night, sunday evening, Youtube.com started facing intermittent 
> reports of inaccessibility. It initially started off with a simple white 
> page across the entire site saying “This Site is Accessible” the site-wide 
> inaccessibility lasted for about an hour but after which almost everything 
> recovered back to normal.
>
> It was then later reported through a number of online users that the 
> crackdown by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority was on one 
> particular video which is of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari saying a very forceful 
> "Shut Up" to an audience member while he is busy delivering his speech at 
> a jalsa a few weeks back
>
> Link to the Blocked Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzuHD5×1fEU [a 
> few other variants have also been blocked]
>
> There is a strong rumor that more is to follow on various social media 
> sites specially blogs and facebook (god forbid ;)) - would people have 
> reports to this extent or can we let them remain as unsubstantiated rumors
>
> Report posted on - 
> http://teeth.com.pk/blog/2010/02/08/pta-blocks-zardaris-shut-up-video
>
> Awab
> http://teeth.com.pk/blog
> http://dbtb.org
>

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