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In February 2008, the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) blocked access to YouTube on Pakistani ISPs, allegedly because of "blasphemous" videos of Dutch politician Geert Wilders (especially Fitna). However, the PTA's block inadvertently knocked out access to YouTube worldwide for two hours on February 25, 2008. [56]
Pakistan, an Islamic republic, ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies." [31] The action effectively blocked YouTube access worldwide for several hours on 24 February. [32] Defaming Muhammad under § 295-C of the Blasphemy law in Pakistan requires a death sentence. [33]
There are both free and paid VPN services. The free services generally have limited traffic and function to attract potential future paying customers, but reading some news articles doesn't use much traffic. Just don't go watching YouTube with a free VPN or you'll exceed your data cap in no time. Layout and images remain intact this way, the ...
NetBlocks, a London-based company that monitors web outages and internet access throughout the world, reported access to Twitter and its backend servers is being “restricted on leading networks ...
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
YouTube requires users under 17 to get their parent's permission before using their site; accounts for users younger than 13 are linked to the parental account.
[29] [better source needed] A graph that appeared in the Wall Street Journal shows the number of blocked access attempts to the-Syrian.com and other sites between August 1 and 5 2011. [ 30 ] In October 2011 US based Blue Coat Systems of Sunnyvale, California acknowledged that Syria was using its devices to censor Web activity, a possible ...
North Koreans are generally not allowed to access YouTube or any site on the World Wide Web due to political censorship, and Un A is no “ordinary” North Korean citizen. On the contrary, the original Echo of Truth channel appears to be a state media operation. [74] talkRADIO: British talk radio station Jan 5, 2021