My Perception

Two year ago Government of Pakistan announces to shut YouTube on the demand made by public because of Blasphemous video published on it. And Government first request the YouTube to remove these content but they rejected the government request. YouTube was also banned in Bangladesh and a few more Islamic countries on the same reason which also reduced its revenue significantly but they stick to their policy. Later on their revenue gap catch up as people learned how to tackle these ban and learned how to use proxy changers which enable them to use blocked websites.

On this act some praises the government stand and some criticizes this step. Currently YouTube is still ban in my country (Pakistan). Most of people have argument that

Most of us seeing its darker side and worrying about it. And the strange thing is, those who praises the government for his stand on YouTube start using it as soon they learned about proxy sites & application. The proxy sites and applications earn a lot in those days and YouTube also got recovered financially. 

Banning YouTube was not seemed as good stance as YouTube is a video library and in a library if one book is not good then need is to change that book not to shut down the library. But in case of this particular library we had closed the library and it benefited us. I am sure will curious that how it benefited us????

I am talking about its brighter side. Is there any brighter side?? Yes it has.

Banning YouTube benefited a lot of web developers. Web developers’ starts making their own web video portals and video sites on the concept of YouTube for purely Pakistani contents which become popular among the viewer of YouTube.according to Alexa web ranking,  Dramas sites are leading and followed by Pakistani News video libraries/web portals (Zem tv, Siasi TV, AndazTV etc). A lot of developers tried and some are still trying to build something unique as banning YouTube provided a lot of space. Most the people still using YouTube by proxies but these Pakistani sites also flourish along with.

My point of view is banning YouTube help Pakistan a lot as it gave space to web  developers and bright minds to think about what they can do and they did it by making video sites and operating it successful. It helps in two ways that is technological and financial.

Technological as it brings development is Pakistan’s web community and they are trying to push there self to at most limits. In terms of finance, these web developers also earn a lot and that money which supposed to transfer abroad stays in the country by using Pakistani sites. This also help national treasury.

I accept banning YouTube is not good but if I am right than it proves good.