{"id":6888,"date":"2017-11-25T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2021-07-22T04:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T11:50:37","slug":"twitter-facebook-youtube-currently-blocked-millions-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/twitter-facebook-youtube-currently-blocked-millions-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are currently blocked for millions in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are currently blocked in Pakistan. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) also ordered that all news channels be taken off-air. They made these drastic changes in light of protests in the capital and under the authority of the Media Code of Conduct 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-blasphemy protests and subsequent military crackdown in Islamabad have left two dead and hundreds injured. The Pakistani army has been called in to restore order in Islamabad, as reported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/25\/world\/asia\/pakistan-protests-khadim-hussain-rizvi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>. Pakistani online news sources still report that the social media ban was lifted after 3PM local time; however, that is clearly not the case.<\/p>\n<h2>Internet users in Pakistan are still unable to access social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube<\/h2>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s oldest English-language newspaper, Dawn, has gathered reports from cities around Pakistan showing that the block is nationwide. And the reports are still coming in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are reports that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube are blocked in Pakistan. Are they blocked for you? Reply and let us know. Mention your city + blocked social media site\/app.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dawn.com (@dawn_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dawn_com\/status\/934397050833252352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Those bypassing it are using proxies and VPNs \u2013 others have reported limited success using the mobile apps instead of the websites.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IamUmer1\/status\/934412321283297282<\/p>\n<p>Mehr Tarar, a journalist based in Lahore, compared the situation to the one in nearby\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/putting-together-pieces-chinese-vpn-jigsaw-puzzle\/\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter and Facebook blocked in Pakistan.<br>Welcome to Islamic Republic of China!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mehr Tarar (@MehrTarar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MehrTarar\/status\/934457969923596289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s almost 200 million population, of which an estimated 9% are regular internet users, accounts for millions of real internet voices that have been censored by the government. While some are managing to make it through by using the technologies available to them \u2013 many others aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are currently blocked in Pakistan. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) also ordered that all news channels be taken off-air. They made these drastic changes in light of protests in the capital and under the authority of the Media Code of Conduct 2015. The anti-blasphemy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/twitter-facebook-youtube-currently-blocked-millions-pakistan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are currently blocked for millions in Pakistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1940],"tags":[104,713,105,597],"class_list":["post-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-social-media","tag-facebook","tag-pakistan","tag-twitter","tag-youtube"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are currently blocked for millions in Pakistan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are currently blocked in Pakistan. 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