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Not only the Danish cartoons stay in the news. There are repercussions in Sudan.
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Recently YouTube was taken down in Pakistan due to a video of MP Geert Wilders of Dutch parliament who has hatred of Muslims and Islam as primary cause. Wilders demands bodyguard protection from the government as he uses his right of free speech. Who will be blamed for the deaths of Dutch nationals overseas?
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com, because of anti-Islamic movies on the video-sharing site, which is owned by Google Inc.
The authority did not specify what the offensive material was, but a PTA official said the ban concerned a trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has said he plans to release a movie portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.
The block was intended to cover only Pakistan, but extended to about two-thirds of the global Internet population, starting at 1:47 p.m. ET Sunday, according to Renesys Corp., a Manchester, N.H., firm that keeps track of the pathways of the Internet for telecommunications companies and other clients.
The greatest effect was in Asia, were the outage lasted for up to two hours, Renesys said.
YouTube confirmed the outage, saying it was caused by a network in Pakistan.
Can you imagine in his rise to power, Hitler would get government protection to advocate his policy from Mein Kampf .
Although one must wonder if the video is not inciting hatred against Dutch Muslims, loss of freedom of speech is not worth censorship. Christian, Muslim, and Jewish preachers constantly rail against homosexuality and thus homosexuals without restraints on their speech.
Best solution, probably not well taught in some countries is just not to listen.