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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. Re:Only one way this can end by interval1066 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Allah can suck it. Hezbollah, Al Quaida, Militant Mulims everywhere, come and get me.

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  2. Grow up by TheOtherChimeraTwin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just because you know calling another kid a name will make him mad doesn't mean that you should do it. A little respect, please.

  3. Re:Ah My by PRMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is the religion in the second case atheism? Because I'm pretty sure that they were planning to teach both sides...

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  4. Re:Ah My by moz25 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, the thing is that it's impossible to have an intellectually equal conversation if both sides don't have equal access to information.

    So how are we to have a discussion about censorship with someone who's actually being censored?

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