{"id":84811,"date":"2016-01-19T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T11:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=84811"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:06:06","slug":"youtube-finally-available-in-pakistan-after-three-year-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-finally-available-in-pakistan-after-three-year-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube finally available in Pakistan after three-year ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine three years without YouTube. Well, that\u2019s what the entire population of Pakistan has had to endure <strong>since 2012<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The popular site was <strong>blocked by the Pakistani Government <\/strong>due to the video giant\u2019s refusal to take down a video that \u201cmocked the prophet Muhammad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>YouTube<\/strong> and its parent <strong>Google<\/strong> has struggled over the years with a few countries, due to their <strong>reluctance to censor material<\/strong> on their site that may be deemed offensive or inappropriate.<br \/>\nPakistani officials have claimed that the service is now available, however with a catch- a Pakistani-specific version.<\/p>\n<p>This means that although internet users will have access to the sites, the <strong>content available to them is monitored and filtered<\/strong>, avoiding the possibility of future complications.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-35345872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine three years without YouTube. Well, that\u2019s what the entire population of Pakistan has had to endure since 2012. The popular site was blocked by the Pakistani Government due to the video giant\u2019s refusal to take down a video that \u201cmocked the prophet Muhammad.\u201d YouTube and its parent Google has struggled over the years with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-finally-available-in-pakistan-after-three-year-ban\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube finally available in Pakistan after three-year ban&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-84811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329374,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84811\/revisions\/329374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84811"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=84811"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=84811"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=84811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}