Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 25, 2010 @07:14AM from the hope-you've-got-a-lot-of-free-time dept.

sv_libertarian sends in this excerpt from an AP report: "Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, Yahoo, and Amazon, for sacrilegious content, while blocking 17 other, lesser-known sites it deems offensive to Muslims, an official said Friday. The moves follow Pakistan's temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has long struggled to figure out how strict a version of Islam it should follow. ... 'If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the (link) shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website,' [said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran]."

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Net neutrality by bonch · 2010-06-25 07:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This is Pakistan's form of net neutrality. Doesn't it make you excited to bring it over to the States? I'm sure nothing but good would come of it.
Re:Muhammad by andymadigan · 2010-06-26 04:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I don't see the Vatican filtering out what their follows can see, though I've heard Scientology does something like that.

Not that I have any more respect for Christianity/Catholicism than Islam.

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