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Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page

Posted by StoneLion on from the never-again-until-the-next-time dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "Facebook is back in Pakistan today. A day after Bangladesh banned the social networking site, the Pakistani government lifted its ban after officials from Facebook apologized for the 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' page and removed it from the site. The page caused outrage and protests among Pakistan's Muslim population, and led to the ban two weeks ago. A spokesman for Pakistan's office of information technology said Facebook assured the government 'nothing of this sort will happen in the future.'"

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  1. Re:Face palm by IgnoramusMaximus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ever wondered what would happen if they had NOT used nukes?

    We do not need to wonder. We know. Japan was about to surrender (it attempted an increasing number of peace overtures beginning in April 1945) but its great mistake was that it attempted to involve the Soviet Union in the surrender proceedings (as an assurance against more US atrocities) and so the US had to show both Japan and the Soviet Union who's the boss.

    Also, the US was involved in mass scale atrocities in japan well prior to the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, like for example the March 9-10 1945 firebombing of Tokyo which killed 100,000 people.

    Consider the numbers, and you can't say a little nuke here and there was really that bad for them.

    As we now know from history (and things that have been declassified long after the war) that the main "target audience" of the use of nukes was the Soviet Union, the only viable threat to the freshly nascent in 1945 Global US Empire.