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Will Malaysia block YouTube website?
25Feb2008 Filed under: Best of the Internet, Security Author: Kitkat
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News came in yesterday that Pakistan has blocked access to the popular video sharing website, YouTube because of objectionable video content.
Reports said the content deemed offensive to Islam which resulted in the ban, included Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, and a trailer for a forthcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which portrays Islam in a negative light.
A blogger from Lahore, Pakistan, Shafiq Rehman however thinks the ban is more “political” than “cultural”:
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued a notice today to all ISPs in Pakistan to block few URLs which were related to election rigging. Since Pakistani service providers didn’t have proper infrastructure to block individual URLs, they blocked the whole domain.
YouTube would remain blocked until further notices from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Meanwhile, I think what Internet users can do to help this situation is to write to YouTube to remove the objectionable content and videos because this removal would hopefully enable the authorities to restore access to the video sharing website.
On a side note, did you notice that YouTube was down earlier this afternoon? According to News.com, a simple mistake by an engineer at Pakistan Telecom might have caused this while they were trying to block access to YouTube.com. Sounds pretty scary and fragile, isn’t it?
Other countries that have temporarily blocked access to YouTube include Turkey and Thailand. We certainly hope Malaysia do not follow what these countries have done…, or you will find there will be more and more websites in the blocked list…
Wuching
February 26th, 2008 at 11:03 am
if they ban then all the bangali cannot see Wuching anymore lor! *bawls*
Josh
February 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I suspect they would – soon – but it will be under the guise of “technical problems” in the TM international lease connection. And we wont be too surprised.
Kitkat
February 26th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Wuching,
No problem at all because Wuching is so femes Wuching is everywhere!
Josh,
Certainly hope this day will never come.
Steve Yu
February 26th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I hope it’s not gonna happen in M’sia, but if they do we still got many video streaming sites to visit.
belle
February 26th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
irrelevant
U SURE U WILL LET ME STAND ON YOUR HEAD?!
Kitkat
February 26th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Steve Yu,
Then all those websites cannot access, wahahaha…
Belle,
Sure, why not? I bet you are not more than 50KG, but later your boyfriends jealous how?
vickie
February 26th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
If Malaysia also ban YouTube I think next time around the world don’t use Internet better!
huei
February 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am
shhh! dun give them the idea!! =P heheh
but you can’t wrap fire with paper. even if they blocked YouTube for politikus reasons..there’s always blogs! they can block blogger, they can block wordpress. But they can’t block our individual domains!! =D
Kitkat
February 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am
vickie,
huei,
But they can block your individual domain because of your objectionable contain and even detain you under ISA! Wahahaha… you die lar…
iCalvyn
February 29th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
i went to check malaysia alexa ranking… and found that another tube are ranking above 100..
porntube.com is the website… cant image a porn website also can hv so high alexa at malaysia…
Kitkat
February 29th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
iCalvyn,
You don’t know sex sales? This is true in blogging as well. You just make a blog post with “sex” as the title, and I am sure you will get more traffic to this post if you put this in PPP.
WASABI!!!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
If they did ban, you can expect a riot from teenagers.
acapkali
December 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
try and ban youtube! riot and protesters will be the only result!
Knud
December 21st, 2008 at 3:04 am
Do they think peoble are stupid. If they make DRM or try to block isp for users, users will use the el-net and parabol and the ISP will lose+TV. also if microsoft continues against google and youtube, same thing, linux.
Johny
January 19th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Well, there’s always Lepak.TV
lol, youtube wont get banned la
-.-
February 20th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
wa kalau malaysia ban youtube mcm mana aku na tgk video cartoon semua? funny?. malaysia pon tak de website sendiri mcm youtube tu. bodoh ke pa? so no need ban
Dyson DC23
February 21st, 2010 at 11:23 am
internet was supposed to be free and the best expression of democracy but soon all these controls will make it lose its luster…
Faithful Malaysian
July 18th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I think if this cross over their line, which mean over criticism of Islam they will ban youtube.
But they never consider 1 thing. We had been exposed to internet for almost decade.
If we’re so blind and stupid to follow everything we see, there will be no Malaysia ever since.
We have rational to decide which is good and bad. So please don’t guide us like baby.