Pakistan Orders ISPs To Block Over 400k Porn Websites (independent.co.uk)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @11:07AM from the how-to-trigger-a-revolution dept.

Bruce66423 writes: The agency that regulates telecommunications in Pakistan has ordered ISPs to block a huge list of adult websites. "The action follows a recent order passed down by the Supreme Court in Pakistan requiring the telecom sector to 'take remedial steps to quantify the nefarious phenomenon of obscenity and pornography that has an imminent role to corrupt and vitiate the youth of Pakistan.' According to the Express Tribune, just days after the ruling by the Supreme Court, the telecom sector regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, added it had provided internet service providers with a list of 429,343 domains to be blocked as it attempts to control the distribution of pornographic material.

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Re: Ob. Dilbert by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-26 13:07 · Score: 2, Interesting

Not that I am in favour of censorship, but has it been demonstrated, or even investigated, whether or not public access to porn is socially inert and not, in fact, harmful? Who are we to push our opinion on other societies that they should assume porn to be harmless. It's not like western youth are shining examples of civilised, logical, admirable humans.