Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy

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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Yoo hoo, boys, look at THIS

[Anonymous Coward]

To make sure Slashdot is banned from Pakistan, it isn't enough to point out that Mohammed was a pedophile, although he was. It will be necessary to also insult the terrorist loving spokesman for Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Khurram Mehran, and secretly homosexual Ministry of Information Technology Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa.

From the Koran: "The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old"

Google will be easy...

[jimmyfrank]

Google's page is pretty simple, a text box and a button, not a ton of content.

Re:Only one way this can end

[Leebert]

No, it is the experience of someone who learned long, long ago not to talk all tough unless you're able and willing to back it up. Because eventually someone will call you on it.

And to not count on your big friends, because they will not always be there to protect you.

Lessons learned in high school are quite often apropos to real life, and quite often scale up to the nation state level.

Re:8==D O: Muhammad sucking a big cock

[ChromeAeonium]

Best hack in the world would be to change whatever error message pops up when someone hits something blasphemous so that it redirects to Encyclopedia Dramatica. I like this one.

Re:Grow up

[clone53421]

That wasn’t his opinion, it was merely an illustration of his opinion that people should be allowed to say that if they want to.

Re:Fulltime Job

[Surt]

You left out the offensive part where it turns out the Rabbi was heavily invested in goat futures.

So...

[AnAdventurer]

Let me get this straight, you are going to score aggregate search companies for finding stuff on the web. Their inherent job is to find everything, which was first based on all things being equal and the better stuff would be scored higher. So you (Pak) are going to go out looking for stuff you don't like using a services that ups a pages visibility based on people viewing it.

There is a fundamental flaw with your operations sir.