Pakistani authorities reached the desired compromise with YouTube and lifted the access restrictions to the site, after the infamous anti-Islamic video has finally been removed. The video in questions featured Geert Wilders, a Dutch lawmaker with radical anti-Islamic convictions who wanted to release a movie portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ordered all ISP in the country to block access to YouTube on Friday, but the result was that on Sunday, users around the world have been denied access too. “This was not intentional and might have happened when an international company, which is routing Internet traffic to Pakistan, tried to block the specific (web address),” a senior PTA official told Agence France-Press.

Authorities in Pakistan admitted to intentionally blocking the site, considering the video to be offensive and provocative and maintained their position regarding the removal of the video before ordering the Internet service providers to lift the restrictions. The video that had the Pakistani authorities upset was the only one to be removed, other videos featuring the controversial Geert Wilders still remaining in place and visible including to Pakistani users.

YouTube has had to deal with similar situations for some time now, when authorities in several countries, such as Brazil, Turkey or China blocked access to the website due to videos that have been considered offensive either to the country itself, or to personalities from those countries.

Brazil for example restricted users’ access to YouTube last year, when a sex video featuring a famous model, Daniela Cicarelli, appeared on the website; however, later on, the ban has been removed. Turkey took a similar approach at the beginning of this year, when a video referring to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey.

Thailand was even more restrictive, banning the site for several months when a video posted on YouTube was considered to be offensive for the country’s monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej.