YouTube Google the owner of the company, has been engaged in talks of progress recently, and we hope to make a breakthrough soon, "the Express Tribune reported, and quoted officials of IT and Telecom Ministry.
Official was further quoted as saying that YouTube is urged to at least block the video in Pakistan if they could not altogether remove it from the website.
May be recalled, YouTube banned in Pakistan in September 2012, after a controversial anti-Islam video - upload website - distressed large of anger in the Muslim world.
Protests, YouTube has blocked access to anti-Islamic film in different countries, but do not agree with in Pakistan, to stop the controversial film.
Express Tribune reported that the current interim administration is keen to get the ban lifted, IT Mirza the Nishtar Dr. on this matter have been working tirelessly, said caretaker Prime Minister.
However, controversy still exists on the site, the video is still the focus of debate. "She is considering all possible ways to solve the problem, but so far there has been no major breakthrough," MoITT official said.A couple of days ago, Information Minister Arif Nizami told reporters, summed up the Government's proposal to delete the YouTube ban.
Why Google does not block access to the video in Pakistan (our opinion):
This is stupid. If Google is able to block access to the desecration of the video in India, Egypt, Libya, Singapore and Russia,then why not in Pakistan it?
Some officials from IT Ministry believe that for removal of the blasphemous video needs a formal request from Government of Pakistan for which Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between United States and Pakistan is required. However, the treaty was not initiated from Pakistani foreign office administration as it was a lengthy process.
We think otherwise.
Any website on internet has a Terms of Services under which it operates. You can get any content removed from a website (any website for that matter) on individual level if you can prove that content is violating website or host specific TOS.
There is no MLAT needed for any such removal of content. Websites remove content from their websites on regular basis for reporting TOS violations.
Similarly, YouTube has this clause in its TOS which confines users to not to upload videos that can be categorized under hate-speech or if they spread hatred. These controversial anti-Islamic videos surely come under hate-speech. Evidence is the protest from billions of Muslim across the world who were angered over the video.
After all such anger and protests, YouTube seems to be on an agenda for not removing videos in certain countries.
We believe this is our diplomatic failure and incompetency that we are yet to get the videos blocked in Pakistan, otherwise, getting a content/video removed from a website isn’t a big deal – especially when the content/video violates host’s TOS.
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