The government of Afghanistan has banned the YouTube page of the deeply offensive and anti-Islamic video, known as “Innocence of Muslims.”
Originally, Ars and other media outlets had reported Afghanistan had blocked all of YouTube. That report was subsequently corrected on Twitter by Aimal Faizi, chief spokesperson for President Hamid Karzai.
"Afghanistan has not banned [the] YouTube website," he wrote. "[The Minister of Information and Communications] had asked [the Ministry of Communications] to ban the video insulting the Prophet Mohammad in YouTube, not YouTube," he wrote.
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