Pakistan lifts three-year ban on YouTube
After YouTube installed a localised Pakistani version last week, Pakistan has lifted the three-year ban on the video-sharing website. The local version would allow the Pakistani government ‘to demand removal of material it considers offensive‘. A YouTube spokeswoman told the BBC that requests for removal could only be granted after thorough review and that these requests ‘would be recorded in YouTube’s Transparency Report’.
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