Pakistan’s new minister of state for IT and telecommunications Anusha Rahman Khan has threatened to ban Google from the country if the tech giant doesn’t block “blasphemous and objectionable” content from YouTube.
Khan addressed Google’s content during her first day in office on Sunday amid a discussion about ending Pakistan’s nine-month ban on YouTube. The country instituted the ban in September of last year after the release of a trailer for the controversial film “Innocence Of Muslims,” which criticized the Prophet Muhammad and prompted widespread violent protests across Pakistan.
Khan said that it’s her ministry’s “job to ensure reopening of YouTube as soon as possible with thorough screening of objectionable material,” according to Dawn, Pakistan’s English-language newspaper.
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