{"id":13,"date":"2022-08-22T05:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2022-08-22T05:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:04:16","slug":"youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-imran-khan-streams-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Imran Khan streams speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Sunday 21 August 2022. The disruption comes as former Prime Minister Imran Khan makes a live broadcast to the public, despite a ban issued by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybercrimeswatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/youtube-banned-pakistan-2022.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Real-time network data show the disruption in effect on some but not all mobile and fixed-line internet providers in Pakistan during the live-streamed speech. Access was restored after the speech concluded. The study is taken from a sample size of 100 measurements from 14 vantage points across Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>This class of disruption can be worked around using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/surfshark.com\/?utm_source=netblocks&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=disruption&amp;utm_content=homepage\">VPN services<\/a>, which are able to circumvent government internet censorship measures.<\/p>\n<p>NetBlocks recommends against the use of network disruptions and social media restrictions to limit political speech, given their disproportionate impact to fundamental rights including freedom of expression and freedom assembly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Sunday 21 August 2022. The disruption comes as former Prime Minister Imran Khan makes a live broadcast to the public, despite a ban issued by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). Real-time network data show the disruption in effect on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}