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| Youtube ISLAMABAD - In a bid to reopen social media website YouTube in Pakistan, the incumbent government has devised a mechanism to filter or permanently remove the objectionable material from the tube and to some extent from the internet too, sources said on Wednesday. Following the advice of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has devised a mechanism to permanently block, remove or to filter the intolerable material from the YouTube, Internet, computer and even from cell phones. And, a decision to this effect would be taken by the Inter-provincial Committee, which is likely to be summoned during the next week, the sources said, adding that filtration would took place with the help of the filters of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). Sources quoting mechanism of filtration of the unbearable material said that PTA would be responsible to filter the unpleasant material from the Internet in future. Under the filtration process around 4000 URLs would be removed with the filters of PTCL. In 2012, a desperate government to quell simmering protests appeared after the release of anti-Islam amateur film, “Innocence of Muslims”, had blocked YouTube in Pakistan. The then Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf issued directives to the information technology ministry to immediately block YouTube across Pakistan. In addition, former Interior Minister Rehman Malik weighed in with another threat to Google Inc, the company that owns YouTube: remove the anti-Islam material, or visas of Google officials would be cancelled. He also said he will approach Interpol for the arrest of those involved in the film. Besides, the Supreme Court had earlier directed the PTA to block 934 links to the movie on YouTube and the Internet. It also ordered the PTA to prevent similar material from being displayed on such websites in the future.
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos.[4] The company is based in San Bruno, California, and usesAdobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.[5]Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users at least 18 years old. YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion in November 2006 and now operates as a Google subsidiary.[6]
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