Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban, but Keeps Facebook's

May 20, 2010 at 2:10 pm PT

The Pakistani government lifted a ban on video-sharing website YouTube after the company took down “blasphemous” footage but retained a temporary ban on social-networking site Facebook imposed earlier this week, the country’s telecommunications regulator said Thursday.

Access to YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc. (GOOG), was cut earlier in the day but restored after the San Bruno, California-based company had “taken off from their website highly offensive blasphemous footage,” the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said, without specifying what content sparked the ban.

Facebook remained blocked after the Lahore High Court ruled on Wednesday that authorities should shut the site down until May 31.

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