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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]."
The department that will handle that will one day become larger than the IRS.
So does that mean they are only block my comment from being viewed, but not all of slashdot? I'd like to see how they plan on doing that.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Hilariously.
Allah Akbar.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
Imagine if these companies sought to block Pakistan or any other Islamic country. There would be uproar and claims of racism, anti-religious behaviour etc. etc. Yet when these same governments block sites for religious purposes it's considered some sort of right to choose (nevermind that it's on behalf of so many whose rights are stomped). I don't have an issue with people blocking their own access out of stupidity, but this idea that they can choose on behalf of others is a reminder of why religious rather than rational reasoning is so dangerous and has no place in politics.
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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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I wonder if they will ship this out to a call center in Mumbai. Now that would be funny.
"Thank you for calling the blasphemy hotline, this is Steve, how may I direct your call?"
0 <- Mohammed
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/ \
Come censor slashdot!
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A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Somewhere, someone on the internet is blaspheming. Duty calls.
That would be hilarious, not offensive. I'd buy swag from whatever company vengefully blocked them back.
Ah, but we do want pakistanis to find this. It is their government that doesn't wish for them to view it.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Muhammad was just another drugged out nut in the desert. God (or Allah) is just fantasy. There is no God. The entire Islamic faith is based on fantasy.
Come block Slashdot!
The right to protest the State is more sacred than the State.
When you bend over backwards to accommodate radicals. Facebook caved in so easily, now Islam wants to police the entire internet...
There's an old saying: Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
I feel sorry for non radical muslims living in Pakistan because you will soon lose access to slashdot? Why? Because of the following comment:
Mohammed was not the prophet of god, he was a homosexual violence crazed pedophile who enjoyed sneaking pork sandwiches between cock-sucking sessions.
To Pakistan, with love from yours truly and probably quite few of us here on slashdot.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I wonder if this will spark Anonymous into trolling them? I mean more than they are already.
An intolerant, closed minded, excuse of a religion deserves true excommunication. Cut off all web contact with Pakistan so that no slight, accidental or deliberate, could occur.
People who insist on living in the past will be buried with it.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
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"
Just because someone is going to get mad, doesn't mean I shouldn't do it. I'll exercise discretion as I please, who are you to dictate your ideas of respect to me?
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
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.
Google's page is pretty simple, a text box and a button, not a ton of content.
If he's going to trample on other people's rights over it, you're damn right I should. This isn't about making people mad. I know some Muslims, they're decent enough, and I don't really care for offending people just for the sake of it, but this isn't about offending people. This is about people who want to control other people's inherent right to free speech , and I would rather stand up and say yes, I have free speech, and if you don't like what I, or anyone else, has to say, if you find it offensive, that's fine, you have the right to be offended, but if you want to stop anyone, go fuck a pig. Warning, link NSFP (not safe for Pakistan).
Oh, and maybe your idea that what other people think should influence what I can say is offensive to me, so you should stop.
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.
When the entire PURPOSE of that anger is to squelch dissent and stifle free speech?
FUCK OFF!!!!
This world will be a much better and safer when Islam is dragged out of the 11th century.
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.
If refusing to consider ideas or facts that conflict with your preconceptions means you're terrified, than most people on Slashdot must be constantly wetting their pants!
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Shhhh . . .Stick Muhammad is sleeping. Don't wake him up with your freaky religious intolerance. He'd be disappointed by your unwillingness to be happy to just conquer and tax people you don't agree with.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
So, this should be equally offensive to Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Those of y’all who consider yourselves believers in a variation of one of those themes, pay attention:
If I were to tell you a story about a talking unicorn who gave a pep talk to the reluctant hero before instructing the hero in how to wield his magic wand, you’d know instantly that I was telling you a make-believe faery tale that has no bearing on reality whatsoever.
If I were to swap out the unicorn with talking shrubbery, you’d still come to the same conclusion, but you’d think it’s a particularly weird story taking even stranger liberties with reality.
But if I were to light the shrubbery on fire, name the hero, “Moses,” and call the wand “The Staff of Aaron,” you’d know that this is the absolute truth, the Word of YHWH, to be accepted uncritically as historical fact. (Exodus chapters 3 and 4, to be specific.) Or, at the very least, it’s some sort of utterly profound morality play from which deep meaning can and should be drawn.
And you’d be a complete and total blithering fucking idiot for doing so.
Cheers,
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
Intense concern over matters of religious adherence, blasphemy or other measures of religious adherence, practice or devotion. Focusing this concern on people outside your nation with substantial cultural and/or religious differences from you and/or the Internet intensifies this effect.
The overall impact of this is to make your nation appear filled with superstitious, power-hungry and intolerant zealots. People will not fear or respect you, they will dislike you for this and believe you are petty, small-minded and foolish.
You will be mocked and laughed at and your nation will remain an ignorant backwater, its people suffering from disease and maladies long since cured by more flexible and rational thinking.
This raises an old question.
Who is more mature;
the person who says empty words to anger another,
or the person who lets nothing but empty words anger them?
Not defending the act of insulting another for fun, just defending the right to do so. And to point out that you took the bait as the OP intended.
You think that the radicals have it in for Americans/Europeans who "insult islam?" That's nothing. Find somebody who is of an islamic background and opposes the idiocy of the radicals, and they might as well have a target on their head. At least the others have the excuse of being ignorant infidels... so only doing something fairly big/obvious gets them targeted.
I really wonder how they console the idea there are different gods and theirs' the best yet he needs their feeble human help to save his face.
Basically they are ass-wipes and now they have a government working for them.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Here is a list of inoffensive websites. This is a comprehensive list which will encompass every single website that is not insulting to Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Shintoism, Republicans, Democrats, Randroids, Scientists, Fantasy Writers, Raisin Smugglers, Budgie Smugglers, and Serial Murderers:
http://127.0.0.1/
There. You will never be offended.
Pakistan: We are laughing at you.
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BMO
Having no sense of humor is no excuse for limiting free speech.
You miss the point of this entirely. Prohibition of blasphemy is a rule you set up for the members of *your* faith only, not for others. Trying to impose your rules over people who have not signed up for your religion has to be called on.
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.
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It makes me despair that so many people here somehow find a means to feel sympathetic to these guys' opinion (either explicitly or, which is more common, by taking it from their own religious point of view). As soon as you start walking down that path, you're bound to obey every randomly idiotic law some religious nut, somewhere, at some point in time, had the good idea to utter... and at this point, you know where to stick your freedom of speech. And sadly, that holds true for *all* religions.
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There is a fundamental flaw with your operations sir.
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Another giant step backwards for mankind. If these people want to be taken seriously, they need to join the 21st century. If you want to live and work alongside the rest of the world, you'll need to toughen up a bit, and not get offended every time someone draws a caricature of Muhammad, or calls him a clown.
If the Internet is contained in the $Holy_Book, it is redundant,therefore useless.
If it is not, it's not only useless, but very dangerous.
Muslims read and recite the whole Qu'ran with great interest and study. Say what you want about Evangelicals, but at least they have the good sense to ignore the bible and sing meaningless pop songs about prosperity instead. It makes America a much nicer place to live.
- Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long
"Scour"? It's the fucking Internet. How hard can it be? Start here! Let everyone know when you're done, ok?
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Great idea Pakistan. I think the only practical and effect way to do that would be to just block the entire Internet. Reminds me of Weird Al's song...
There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Caruso
It's as primitive as can be
You have hit the nail on the head.
However, instead of "youth unemployment", the questions our politicians are trying to dodge are a bit more worrisome:
1: "How is it that a person, who had himself declared clinically insane to dodge Lawsuits, is now our elected President?" (You might gape, but it's true.)
2: "You said our electricity problems would be solved by April, yet we have rolling blackouts (for up to 36 hours in some places!), when will the Govt. solve that?"
3: "Why isn't the Government obeying the Supreme Court and re-opening the Swiss Court cases against the President and his cronies?"
4: "Why are most of our Senators, MNAs and MPAs (National/Provincial level Congressmen) having fake degrees?"
5: "When will we stop having to stand hours in line to get Sugar, Flour and other necessities?" (Incidentally, checkout this vid I made while I was standing in line for Sugar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTbkO4vyRs)
There are other, equally worrisome, questions, but as you can see, any of these questions, if dug deep, can be used by the (equally corrupt) Opposition Parties to break their already weak Coalition Govt.
So the solution is simple: "Why are you taking out rallies against us, Look, the Danes drew a cartoon/Facebook insulted him/[Insert Diversion Here], go there! Yes, Burn those evil western overloads, (even though they are the ones giving us the loans that we squander to buy our Jets), Burn them!!!"
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