Ban goes

The telecom regulator yesterday lifted the ban on popular video streaming website YouTube nearly nine months after it had been imposed.
The international internet gateways have been given instructions accordingly, said Sunil Kanti Bose, chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
The authority blocked YouTube in the country on September 17 last year to prevent people from watching a 14-minute trailer on a film titled Innocence of Muslims, in the awake of deadly protests from the Middle East to Southeast Asia.
Before banning YouTube, the regulator communicated with Google, owner of the website, asking it to block the video clip for Bangladesh but when it denied doing so BTRC blocked the website.
Sunil said a mirror server of Google was required to set up in Bangladesh to block the URL of the video clip, which was an expensive and time consuming matter.
The Universal Resource Locator means the address of the web page. Each page has its own unique web address.
Google has recently put a notification over the clip that it is a sensitive content for the viewers and so the regulator has considered opening the video site. The telecom regulator is also setting up equipment for filtering web pages with objectionable contents.
People are getting access to YouTube since yesterday afternoon.