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Thursday, May 20

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Today in Censorship

By Brad

To crack down on what they view as sacrilegious content, the government of Pakistan has blocked access to both YouTube and Facebook. From the Huffington Post:

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority did not point to specific material on YouTube that prompted it to block the site, only citing “growing sacrilegious contents.” The government acted against both Facebook and YouTube after it failed to persuade the websites to remove the “derogatory material,” the regulatory body said in a statement.

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