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pakistani activists challenging the country’s YouTube ban.
Costa Rica to close its public zoos: the web reacts.
And a drum-playing grandma becomes a web sensation.
Pakistani activists challenging YouTube ban
Web users in Pakistan have now been denied access to YouTube for close to a year. The government banned Google’s video sharing platform back in September after it showed clips of the controversial anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims", which prompted a wave of protests across the country.
Measures which are now being challenged by the NGO "Bytes For All", which has started legal proceedings to try to end this ban.
The digital rights organization is also running an online campaign around freedom of expression on the Internet. These digital posters denounce the ban on sites like YouTube, with activists saying penalizes students, for example, who use the web for research or study.
YouTube has also helped Pakistani musicians launch their careers and make a living, and they too have joined the campaign. Up and coming talent Usman Riaz for example learnt how to play the guitar by watching videos on the famous sharing platform.
But the Pakistani authorities are not ready to lift the ban on YouTube just yet. At least not until a filtering system has been put in place in Pakistan, to block all content on the video platform deemed blasphemous by the government.
Costa Rica to close its public zoos
Costa Rica is planning to close the country’s two public zoos. The announcement was made on Monday by the small Central American nation’s Environment Minister René Castro wh... Go on reading on our web site.
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