Pakistan ban on YouTube to remain indefinitely

February 07, 2015 22:03

The suspension of video-sharing website YouTube is likely to continue in Pakistan for an indefinite period, officials said today, as authorities have failed to come up with a solution for filtering objectionable or 'blasphemous' material without blocking the site.

Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered government to filter all unwanted content before restoring the website after it was blocked in 2012 following uploading of the controversial film Innocence of Muslims that caused an uproar in the conservative Islamic nation.

An official of Pakistan Telecom Authority said that so far no method has been found to selectively stop obscene and anti-Islamic content on the site.

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