PTA and Islamic Countries Wasted Once-in-a Life-Time Opportunity with YouTube Case
I sincerely believe that PTA has a big hand in keeping all those hateful unwanted contents on YouTube, which we all want to remove from there very bad.
Shocking! Yes? How come PTA, who blocked YouTube in Pakistan, blocked every other possible method to go to YouTube in Pakistan is involved in such a shameful act!
Am I saying it out of hate? Am I up to create some conspiracy? It may sound like it but when you think about it with a cool mind, with will to truly solve the problem and to clean that dirt for good, you will agree with me.
Let me ask you if someone throw a mess in your home and everyone at your home close their eyes and ignore it, will that mess be cleaned all by itself? No. When you see it, then you will do something to clean it up. By closing your eyes that mess will not disappear, in fact it might be increase.
In YouTube case, this is exactly what we are doing by closing our eyes or by blocking ourselves out instead of fixing the problem.
Which country recorded the most intense reaction against those video clips? It was Pakistan, and in a way Pakistan is still trying to show their ^protest^ by keeping YouTube blocked strictly in the country long after a year and half. There are a large number of Internet users who stand strongly by the decision of blocking YouTube. So basically Pakistanis were and are one of the nations who wanted those videos gone.
Unfortunately, our methods were extremely wrong, and extremely violent, hence it was wasted.
PTA has great resources; unfortunately they lack sensibility to deal with these issues more effectively. Blocking YouTube in one small country is doing more damage than solving the real problem. I have been saying this since the moment I learn my access to YouTube has been blocked, and now that it is over a year and half; it is clear - it was a useless action, or reaction. It was a self destructive move PTA made and the nation is paying the price while the dirt stays online and spreading.
There were two most effective methods to solve the problem.
1. PTA should communicate with other Muslim countries and they all should be agreed upon blocking YouTube TOGETHER. Not just 2 or 3 countries but as many Muslim countries as possible, with the clear message why it was blocked through a legal process with logical explanation.
That step should put Google under a serious pressure when a large part of worldwide web traffic stop going to their website. 1 or 2 countries cannot damage them the way we Pakistanis over PTA were thinking.
2. Second option would be more beneficial: PTA should take a lead in guiding Muslim users across the world including Muslims of Pakistan of course; to Report those contents using YouTube's report link, without recording any other action or feedback. Just a thumb down and filing a report - period.
PTA should also arrange or at least guide Muslim content creators to prepare video contents about why Muslims respects our Holy Personalities, why those contents are harmful for world Peace and in spreading hate among mankind. Why those videos should not be online.
It was a great opportunity for us Muslims to show what Peace meant for us, what Islam is all about, but unfortunately none of such campaign raise on a global scale to show peaceful side of Islam. Instead we showed how much violent people we are that we damaged our own properties, we spilled blood of our own people. We showed the world why they are right to ^contain^ us and eliminate us. We humiliate ourselves; we disgraced our religion of Peace. And we still blame others instead of fixing our own attitude.
When thousands and millions of users would report those contents (without making an ugliest mess) YouTube or Google authorities might have looked at this whole thing differently. Result could have been different.
Instead what we did, what PTA did is, blindfolded us from seeing the dirt and pretended they are done with their responsibility. Where in reality the dirt continue to spread openly throughout the world. And just because we cannot see it, we cannot talk about it, we forget about it yet those things are there for everyone to watch!
So yes, I blame PTA, I blame well known Islamic scholars and so-called Muslim experts sitting on top positions, which are failed to do anything to resolve it the way it should be - AGAIN.
