-YouTube is a video-sharing website that was created in 2005 which allows users to upload,view and share videos. Its company is based in San Bruno, California, and its CEO is Salar Kamangar. - YouTube says that roughly 60 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, and that around three quarters of the material comes from outside the U.S. -Besides video sharing, YouTube promotes several features with a society: -Economically, YouTube is a fine medium to advertise and deliver product information. It also helps increase globalisation, tourism and to a large extent, helps in educating students all over the world. -Psychologically, YouTube is a platform that encourages talent. It’s also a pool of knowledge that helps in making people confident by gaining knowledge about things they previously did not know about. -Socially, YouTube is a fine place to spread awareness about social issues, and promote cultural values and identities. It has proven to be responsible for bringing about social reforms, such as in the case of the Arab Spring in 2011. In Pakistan, YouTube has been banned since 17th September 2012 because of an anti-Islamic video. Several other Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sudan also banned YouTube following this event. The point of sharing this data with you is not to just state the fact, but to reason logically. I always thought YouTube was banned in Pakistan so that their company would face an economic loss due to low viewership from Pakistan, but clearly, that did not happen. Also, let’s be honest, YouTube has technically been banned for all of us, but around 80% of all Pakistanis are no strangers to the world of proxies: Do these names ring a bell? *Writes HotSpot Shield, SpotFlux. I’m more concerned with what we think we have achieved with banning YouTube: has that video been removed? No. Do the folks at YouTube care that Pakistan has banned YouTube in its own country? I really doubt so... Have Pakistanis stopped accessing YouTube: Technically yes, realistically, No. Yet, YouTube is banned... and the only people suffering from this ban are the Pakistanis. Young Pakistanis are deprived of the gift of knowledge they could access, citizens are deprived of the entertainment they could get to divert away from their tiring lives, advertising agents face difficulty in marketting products online, and ultimately, Pakistan is suffering a loss itself. This brings me to my last point, which is in fact, a question – if the world is progressing towards development, then why is Pakistan faltering backwards? Sign the petition for unbanning/unblocking YouTube in Pakistan - NOW.