{"id":74966,"date":"2025-05-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74966"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:00:00","slug":"pta-blocks-thousands-of-anti-state-websites-youtube-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pta-blocks-thousands-of-anti-state-websites-youtube-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"PTA blocks thousands of &#8216;anti-state&#8217; websites, YouTube channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked more than lakh websites and thousands of YouTube channels working against the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/over-13000-anti-state-videos-taken-down-by-pta\/\">national interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move was taken amid a major crackdown launched against the digital platforms spreading content harmful to the country\u2019s security and defence.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the operation, PTA has blocked 119,496 websites and 3,248 YouTube channels.<\/p>\n<p>PTA officials said that releasing details of the closed websites is not possible due to privacy policies.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that major Pakistani YouTubers who launched hate campaigns against the state and military leadership during the recent Pak-India tension have come on the PTA\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p>The authority has compiled its lists and sought permission from the government to immediately close these YouTube channels.<\/p>\n<p>The telecom authority said that they are keeping a close eye on online activity and will leave no stone unturned in ensuring national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked more than lakh websites and thousands of YouTube channels working against the national interest. The move was taken amid a major crackdown launched against the digital platforms spreading content harmful to the country\u2019s security and defence. As part of the operation, PTA has blocked 119,496 websites and 3,248 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4913,4210,28865,28866],"class_list":["post-74966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pakistan-telecommunication-authority","tag-pta","tag-websites","tag-youtube-channels-blocked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74972,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74966\/revisions\/74972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}