Youtube: Flash back to Pakistan

Platform for the exchange of the most popular videos on the Web, which is the subject of an outright blocking from the Pakistani government since September 2012, was again available on Saturday from some users.

It is estimated that the temporary availability range from 3 minutes to 3 hours depending on various reports of local news organizations. 

To recap, the blocking of the site occurred following the refusal of Google to remove a video posted on the platform where the Prophet Muhammad was the subject of ridicule.

YouTube has been completely banned in Pakistan since September 17 following the protest movement in the Middle East caused by the release of the film "innocent Muslims."

The temporary return of the platform to the Pakistani network is the result of a lack of coordination of government as explained by the Minister of Interior Rehman Malik on Twitter. Pakistan wanted to lift the ban on YouTube, but eventually recanted after having found no change in hosting the video deemed offensive.

Pakistan is not his first blockade of the Internet, similar cases having occurred in 2008 with a clip of a Dutch legislator, but also in 2010 on a Facebook page featuring illustrations of the prophet considered inappropriate.