US COURT ORDER GOOGLE TO OWNS YOUTUBE
AND TO REMOVE ANTI-ISLAM FILM FROM THE SITE.
The video-sharing
website named YouTube had been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012 over
its failure to take down the innocence of Muslims movie that sparked furious
protests around the world. But now A US appeals court on Wednesday order
Google, which owns YouTube, to remove the anti-Islam film after a law suit
brought by an actress who says she was tricked into appearing in it. Pakistani technology
think-tank Bytes for all said that with the removal of the crude movie,
regarded as highly blasphemous by many Muslims the government of Pakistan had
no reason to maintain the ban.
Pakistanis think that now the government of Pakistan
has been left with no excuse to continue blocking access to YouTube, but the
ban on YouTube has got more to do with the government’s desires and efforts to
impose censorship, content filtering and moral policing and we are fighting
against them in court through a constitutional petition. There was no immediate
response from our government.
The American made “Innocence of Muslims”, which
depicted Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), triggered protest across the Pakistan that
left more than 20 people dead. Free speech campaigners in Pakistan have
complained of creeping censorship in the name of protecting religion or
preventing obscenity. In November 2011, the telecommunications authority tried
to ban nearly 1700 obscene, words from text message, which included innocuous
terms such as “Lotion”, athlete’s foot and idiot in 2010 Pakistan shut down Facebook
for nearly two weeks over alleged blasphemy. But it continues to restrict
hundreds of online links.
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