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Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Ah My by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It must be sad to so terrified that your religion will collapse if you don't control what the adherents read. Any religion that can only survive by censorship is a religion deserving of nothing but absolute scorn and the sincerest wish that it end up in the trash heap of worthless ideas.

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  2. Re:Fulltime Job by rwa2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, really, what a job description!

    "Actively go out and find stuff that offends and appalls you"

    I hope they get paid well to have to essentially work with insults all day long.
    What metrics will they use to track their job performance? If they don't find enough offensive content, will they have to create their own to justify their existence?

  3. Is there a way to block Pakistan? by JSBiff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you're running a website, is there a way to detect visitors who are (probably) in Pakistan (like, is there a specific block of IPs that is assigned to Pakistan), to redirect them to a page explaining that you'd rather not risk getting a death sentence from Pakistan, so you are not willing to serve content in that jurisdiction?

    I say everyone should just create an Internet Embargo against Pakistan if they're going to be like that. Cut em off.