Tag archive: Muhammad

Yesterday, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority raised hackles all over the world by blocking access to the popular social networking service Facebook for carrying a group sponsoring a contest to draw pictures of the prophet Muhammad. Now, the regulator has extended the crackdown to include Google's video sharing service YouTube along with more than 450 other sites and Web pages deemed to be offering derogatory and sacrilegious… Read More

It was a small mistake with major consequences. According to the BBC, in a domino effect, a decision by Pakistan to block YouTube led to the site being unavailable globally for over an hour yesterday.   Reportedly, the country blocked the site because it contained content deemedoffensive to Islam, although no one seemed absolutely certain what that was. Some believed it was because YouTube had the Danish cartoons regarding Muhammad that… Read More

On its surface, Wikipedia seems like a tremendous thing: create a globally accessible online encyclopedia, constantly expanded, updated, and corrected by the entire Internet community. And, indeed, the project has gained substantial momentum over the years, sprouting innumerable localized versions and finding the accuracy of its science articles favorably compared to the famed Encyclopedia Britannica. Yet the collaborative nature of… Read More

Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson stole the show during Sunday's Super Bowl, attracting almost twice as many viewers as the most thrilling moments on the field, according to an annual measurementof second-by-second viewership in TiVo households. The Jackson-Timberlake moment drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever measured. TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used… Read More