PTA blocks Youtube in Pakistan.

(also posted on ittazee.com)

I am SUPER pissed. I mean, WTF?! (excuse my french) Youtube has been blocked in Pakistan, leaving thousands of instructional, knowledge building , and great videos out of reach of 160 million Pakistanis. The PTA (Pakistan Telecome Authority, the watchdog basically) apparently (as per the news article) had blocked one objectional page on youtube, but ISPs have blocked out the entire site?!

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=97814

Once again, we, by our people, are locked out of progress and change. I’m just ticked off now. Several other video sites still work, for the time being. If you remember, they also blocked blogger.com for a long time as well. That didnt last. I hope this doesnt.