Pakistan Bans YouTube

American Voices

February 26, 2008 | ISSUE 44•09

The government of Pakistan has blocked access to YouTube over anti-Islamic clips posted on the video-sharing site. What do you think?

It's a shame that now the only place for Pakistan's amateur filmmakers to post their work is CNN."

Chris Ricciardi
Documentation Clerk
Hopefully there will be a day in which little Pakistani boys and girls can come together with their Western counterparts and watch a video of a horny donkey trying to hump a guy taking a leak in its pasture.

Janelle Ashland
Purification Assistant
I'd expect this kind of fear-mongering behavior from Russia, China, America, France, England, Iran, Japan, Spain, Germany, Venezuela, and Israel. But not Pakistan.

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