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The Pakistani government caused a worldwide, two-hour-long YouTube outage on Sunday after it ordered Internet service providers to block the site. Reports suggest these two videos were responsible for the ban. The first animates the Danish cartoons which caused riots in 2005. The second is a trailer for Forbidden, a film which argues Islam is an inherently violent religion. Here’s that clip:

I have to admit that the lip syncing clip is totally funny. The other one strikes me as being fairly propagandistic, but I’m not big on censorship…

 

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