{"id":19848,"date":"2010-05-20T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pakistan_blocks_youtube_in_sacrilege_row\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:33:07","slug":"pakistan_blocks_youtube_in_sacrilege_row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19848","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan blocks YouTube in \u201d\u02dcsacrilege\u2019 row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan blocked access to YouTube today because of \u201cgrowing sacrilegious content\u201d\u009d on the video-sharing website. It is the latest twist in an escalating international row over Islam and freedom of speech online.<\/p>\n<p>The move came a day after the Pakistani Government responded to a court order by temporarily blocking Facebook over a page advertising a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>The Everyone Draw Muhammad Day page and several spin-offs invite users to send in caricatures of the Prophet today \u201d\u201c infuriating many Muslims who regard any image of him as blasphemous.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority did not say specifically which material on YouTube was deemed sacrilegious, but there are several clips relating to Everyone Draw Muhammad Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article7131683.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan blocked access to YouTube today because of \u201cgrowing sacrilegious content\u201d\u009d on the video-sharing website. It is the latest twist in an escalating international row over Islam and freedom of speech online. The move came a day after the Pakistani<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19848\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,94,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-blogging-the-internet","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}