A
four member committee has been formed under the supervision of Member
IT at Ministry of IT – Amir Malik who will look into various options
that could help opening the largest video sharing website in Pakistan.
The
committee will analyze some 8 million URLs for ensuring that
blasphemous content is no more accessible in Pakistan, a local TV
reports.
A ministry official was not
available to comment on the mechanism of analyzing and filtering this
huge number of URLs but the effort appears far from what is required to
deal with the situation.
An official privy to the matter, while talking to MORE, stated that Intermediary Liability Protection (ILP) law is what required by Google to remove the unwanted blasphemous content from its server.
YouTube was blocked
by government in Pakistan in September 2012 after a controversial and
blasphemous movie – Innocence of Muslims – was displayed across the
world. Government took the plea that it would make every effort to
remove the content from the YouTube servers.
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