While the Afghanistan government has banned the use of YouTube to their citizens. The Afghanistan government felt that they did not want their citizens to have the freedom to view the kind of material that is available on YouTube. According to the New York Times, "While officials say they hope to lift the block “as soon as possible,” they have offered only a vague sense of what must happen before that can be done." The Afghan government is worried that their younger population will have access to view information that they do not want them to see, according to an Afghan citizen, "“I don’t need YouTube. I can watch videos on other Web sites.”
The original reason that YouTube was banned was because of "a trailer for the video “Innocence of Muslims,” which portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a crass thug and a womanizer, began to circulate in September, the Afghan government reacted quickly to stem potential violence as riots broke out in other countries. In a move that senior Western officials in Afghanistan praised, the Afghan authorities reached out to religious leaders across the country, urging them to preach restraint and tolerance." More controversially, officials also decided to impose the ban on YouTube after the company refused to remove the video from its site.
The citizens who agree with the government are not the people they need to worry about viewing the material, it's the people who disagree with the government and will find another way to view the material. The government has to has faith in their citizens. "Still, some are asking the question: Where does the government draw the line on filtering information to its citizens? The answer has consistently been: Anywhere Islam is insulted." In my opinion this is over the top, the government has to trust their citizens enough to have their own view on the Afghan government.