ISLAMABAD: ToffeeTV has hit an unexpected snag. The internet start-up depended on YouTube to promote “Hokey-Pokey,” “The Umm Nyum Nyum Song” and other language-teaching clips it produces for children, but the video-sharing website has been banned in Pakistan for nearly a year.
The measure was imposed to block videos that Muslims took as insulting and blasphemous. But the unintended consequence has been frustration for many companies, educators and students. A petition to end internet censorship is before a Pakistani court, and a debate has been rekindled over how to reconcile the right to a free flow of information with a widespread public sentiment that Islam needs special protections.
Via Internet censorship in Pakistan challenged in court – The Times of India.