Tag: Youtube

India asks YouTube to block banned rape film

India said Thursday it had asked YouTube to block access to a documentary about a savage gang-rape in Delhi, after barring broadcasters from airing...

YouTube to remain blocked in Pakistan ‘indefinitely’

YouTube will remain blocked in Pakistan ‘indefinitely’, an official said Saturday, as experts have failed to find a way to filter content deemed offensive...

Impossible to block all objectionable content on YouTube, admits minister

Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman on Friday informed the Senate that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) does not have the technology...

India comedy pulled from YouTube amid free speech fears

The producers of an Indian comedy that “roasted” celebrities have pulled it from YouTube following a furore over its “vulgar” content that renewed fears...

US court reconsiders anti-Islam film on YouTube

An 11-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena will hear arguments Monday by Google, which owns YouTube, disputing the court's decision to remove “Innocence of Muslims” from the popular video sharing service.

US court reconsiders anti-Islam film on YouTube

LOS ANGELES- A federal appeals court will reconsider a decision to order YouTube to take down an anti-Islam film clip that sparked violence in...

YouTube ban: LHC directs petitioner to approach apex court

A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the petitioner to approach the Supreme Court (SC) for clarification of its interim...

NA approves resolution to unban YouTube

ISLAMABAD The National Assembly on Tuesday approved a resolution to lift a ban from YouTube website, a private news channel reported. According to the report, MNA...

Turkey keeps YouTube block despite court rulings

Turkish authorities defied court orders and reaffirmed a ban on YouTube imposed after the posting of illicit recordings of top secret security talks that...

Turkish PM threatens to ban Facebook, YouTube

ANKARA The Turkish prime minister has threatened drastic steps to censor the Internet, including shutting down Facebook and YouTube, where audio recordings of his alleged...

Google loses bid to keep anti-Islamic video online during appeal

SAN FRANCISCO- A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected Google's request to put on hold an order requiring the company to remove an anti-Islamic video...

US court orders YouTube to remove anti-Islam film

SAN FRANCISCO A US appeals court ordered YouTube on Wednesday to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violence across the globe, prompting widespread riots...

YouTube forecast to rake in $5.6 billion from ads

Industry tracker eMarketer forecasts that YouTube will rake in about $5.6 billion from ads this year, pocketing nearly two billion of those dollars as...

Pakistan may get localised YouTube: report

Google may localise YouTube in Pakistan — a move that may enable the users to access the video sharing website in the country, a...

Ban on YouTube to be lifted soon

Minister for Information Technology Anusha Rehman on Thursday said the ban on YouTube would be removed in the coming few days after the sitting...

YouTube ban may be lifted after Eidul Fitr

A ban imposed on video-sharing website YouTube may be lifted after Eidul Fitr, a report published on a local news website said. The report quoted...

YouTube will be back: PTA DG

Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Director Pakistan General (DG) Waseem Touqeer on Thursday said the government was taking measures to restore YouTube and was removing objectionable...