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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Ob. Dilbert by swm · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://assets.amuniversal.com/...

    1. Re: Ob. Dilbert by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    2. Re:Ob. Dilbert by penguinoid · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Simple, redirect the porn sites to a site containing instructions on how to make a suicide vest, plus the current number of virgins using one will earn you in the afterlife.

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  2. Preview Mode by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then how are they gonna know what 72 v's are like?

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    1. Re:Preview Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Hopefully all 72 virgins are lezbos!

    2. Re:Preview Mode by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pretty sure 0 out of those 400,000 sites contain images of actual virgins...

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    3. Re:Preview Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Now now, one of them might have pictures of the tech support staff.

    4. Re:Preview Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      They don't need to know.

      Did you ever notice how masturbation calms a man down? I mean when I lack sex, I go completely crazy. Not only I'm willing to spend a few hundred dollars for a restaurant and a show simply to be with a girl, not only I'm willing to offer her stupid gifts, but it's to a point where I even think about marriage!

      But then, I masturbate and I get my mind back. I split the restaurant bill, I let the girl pays for her own ticket and, more importantly, I realize again marriage would be the biggest mistake of my life. (Hence my motto : One masturbation a day keeps marriage away.)

      Now I imagine if not only I could not masturbate, but women were also covered from heat to toe. I swear, I'll end up blowing up myself.

    5. Re:Preview Mode by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      Virtual +5, Insightful.

    6. Re:Preview Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      ... I could not masturbate, but women were also covered from heat to toe.

      Victorian Christianity demanded this too. They also outlawed prostitution. Women in western cultures had more freedom so it didn't change much, women just lied about sex a lot more, which created cognitive dissonance: All women had sex frequently (observed behaviour) but no woman liked fucking (medical/political mantra). This existed in adult sex education books (there weren't any for teenagers) in the 1980s, although several years passed before I recognized the double standard: Women wanted a big penis and multiple orgasms when they fucked but they didn't think about sex or need it. Every virgin learns that's a lie.

      One masturbation a day keeps marriage away.

      It also keeps fatherhood away. It's a motto so important I will spray-paint it on building walls.

    7. Re: Preview Mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      That's okay, Allah doesn't exist either. Peoples brains get burned out in the hot sun and believe in all sorts of stupid things.

    8. Re:Preview Mode by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      Where did that comment about Victorians come in? Wow, that was out of left field. What's next, the Scythians? Bonobonese?

      Turns out, fatherhood is a horrible deal for men, too. That plus marriage are the main sources of men being divorce raped and thrown in debtors' prison. Did you know we, in 2016, actually have debtors' prison? Yes, we brought it back. Not even joking. Some progressive society we live in.

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    9. Re:Preview Mode by invictusvoyd · · Score: 1

      Now I imagine if not only I could not masturbate, but women were also covered from heat to toe. I swear, I'll end up blowing up myself.

      It is however quite difficult to blow yourself. The flexibility of the spine is stretched to its limits !!

    10. Re:Preview Mode by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      You masturbate in the restaurant? What the hell kind of pervert are you?? :D

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    11. Re:Preview Mode by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      No one ever let them in on the secret that the 72 virgins were other male suicide bombers...

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    12. Re:Preview Mode by aicrules · · Score: 1

      Unless one or more of them turns the user's web cam on, then I'd say many of those probably do....

    13. Re:Preview Mode by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      As Joycelyn "slow hand" Elders said about masturbation, "I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught."

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  3. 429,343 porn domains??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Holy Money Shot Batman!!!

  4. Goats by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's as if the voices of millions of goats suddenly bleated in terror, and were silenced.

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    1. Re:Goats by Locke2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

      That joke is really baaaaaaaaaaaad!

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    2. Re:Goats by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      So, they only eat the ugly ones, then?

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  5. I'm just wondering. .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Is the list on line somewhere? Cause I want to. .. block those sites on my router. .. yeah that's it.

  6. Wankers! by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um... how do I get ahold of that list for, you know, research purposes?

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    1. Re: Wankers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      How very 'damnit that douchebag VP got us another virus' again of you.

      Your working. Not there for porn. Do that on your own time.

    2. Re:Wankers! by GroeFaZ · · Score: 1

      Agreed, I have to check the list for false positives.

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    3. Re:Wankers! by aicrules · · Score: 1

      I recommend just using a white list if it is that important to you. Blocked site includes a link to submit a site for review to be whitelisted. You could optionally review a week or month worth of web traffic and see what sites are hit the most often and add those to the whitelist ahead of time. Regardless it ends up being pretty much self policing. People won't request access to a site that they know is going to be reviewed first if they know it is not allowed at work. Review of submissions can be however frequent you think is reasonable, with the user having the onus to escalate if the need to view a new site is urgent.

  7. Spelling block by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Oh just bluck off!

  8. Re:And I by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    But not before we get to know what is in that list. Clearly the pakistani officials made a good effort to compile a list of quality smut on the internet, and we all want to know where it is!

  9. Stop vitiating! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Boobies: Oh, the HORRORS!

    Beheadings: Meh, s'ok.

  10. VPN by agm · · Score: 1

    I doubt they block encrypted traffic. Working around this with a VPN or tunnel would be trivial.

    1. Re:VPN by loufoque · · Score: 1

      Don't people already do this to avoid being tracked?

    2. Re:VPN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Spoken like someone who's never lived in a country with a government that's dangerous to it's own people.
      It's not worth being executed to access porn.

    3. Re:VPN by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      In this case, all it takes is switching your DNS to point at 8.8.8.8 and the block disappears.

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  11. How can we ... by PPH · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... get our boys to strap on bombs for 72 hypothetical virgins in heaven when they see what's available right here on earth?

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    1. Re:How can we ... by invictusvoyd · · Score: 1

      ..Just tell them that Pamela Anderson is not a virgin . they wont believe you at first but it will gradually sink in.

    2. Re:How can we ... by martinux · · Score: 1

      In the same way we should stop calling terrorists "terrorists" and start calling them morons, we need to stop calling people virgins and start calling them sexually inept.

      "In today's news, two morons blew themselves up for the promise of 72 sexually inept women."

      Take all of the glory out of it.

  12. vitiate by xeno · · Score: 1

    Ooo. "vitiate" is my new word of the week. Sounds like good sport to me.... :)

    To borrow a phrase from Mr. Universe: "You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and porn goes everywhere."

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  13. Only 429,343? by meglon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they're trying this on a small limited basis first, i see.

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    1. Re:Only 429,343? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      They're leaving all the child molester sites up since their fucktard prophet was a child molester.

      Fuck Allah! Fuck Moohammad! Fuck Islam!!!

    2. Re:Only 429,343? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Islam does not work well with Freedom of choice. There's only one way, Conformity.
      It started as a political movement, and so it continues. Religion is more economical for control than sheer force.
      People are born without religion, 99.999% is adopted from their parents. There is no choice involved.
      The parents are always right.

    3. Re:Only 429,343? by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 1

      Islam does not work well with Freedom of choice. There's only one way, Conformity.
      It started as a political movement, and so it continues. Religion is more economical for control than sheer force.
      People are born without religion, 99.999% is adopted from their parents. There is no choice involved.
      The parents are always right.

      The methodist doctrine didn't stick in my case. Are the ratios the same when you aren't under threat of death if you choose atheism? Or am I one of the 0.001%?

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    4. Re:Only 429,343? by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 1

      I know I was stoned to death by my parents when I left the Catholic Church.

      What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Oh wait..

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  14. Does Pakistan have a freedom of information act by Bruce66423 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So we can ASK for the list? Seriously - viewing it might reveal censorship of politics and religion, not just smut.

  15. What's the difference? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    What's the difference between Pakistani and Portuguese situation? I'll tell you: in Pakistan ISP's are forced to respect a Supreme Court ruling, here in Portugal ISP's are forced by bureaucrats to block dozens of "pirate" sites.

  16. Hydra by ilsaloving · · Score: 1

    Wow, I've never seen anyone try to cut the heads off of a hydra that big before. It'll be amusing to see their reaction when the resulting mass of new heads looms above them.

  17. Good. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

    This means more porn for me.

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  18. If you think you can block porn from kids you are by mmiscool · · Score: 2

    You ever watch jurasic park and remeber the line "Nature will find a way". Well this is the same thing with teen agers and porn. They will find a way. It is laughable that they would try to prevent this kind of activity.

  19. Where's the list? by mveloso · · Score: 1

    Where's the list? For research purposes only, of course!

  20. 400,000 sites!?! by reboot246 · · Score: 1

    I've got to get busy if I'm going to visit all of those before I die.

    So far I'm up to only 175,395 sites! And, damn, my arm is tired.

  21. I can't be the only one by argumentsockpuppet · · Score: 1

    Surely I'm not uncommon in recognizing this as a profit opportunity.

    I know people are up in arms over censorship, but really all this will do is strengthen the options for bypassing it. Freedom needs exercise too. Somebody will set up bypass tools and make a bundle of money and at the same time make it that much harder for the next round of censorship attempts.

  22. Goat Porn by EEPROMS · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they will be blocking goat porn

    http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/...

  23. How did they find 400k porn sites? by jetkust · · Score: 1

    Who's working for them, Glenn Quagmire?

  24. Never underestimate... by John+Allsup · · Score: 3, Funny

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

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    1. Re:Never underestimate... by hjf · · Score: 1

      google for Cuba's "El Paquete Semanal". There's a short documentary about it on youtube.

    2. Re:Never underestimate... by John+Allsup · · Score: 1

      The content they're trying to block isn't exactly interactive. Latency is no problem: you just need bandwidth.

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  25. And the fap goes on! by Revek · · Score: 1

    Now they will just have to stare at those ankles.

  26. Re:And I by rtb61 · · Score: 1

    My guess is those idiots were spending too much time masturbating over porn because 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and if you do not know what that stands for you do not belong on /. but do belong in some idiot Pakistani agency telling ISPs what to do. They kind of did point out the blocking is occurring at local ISP dns server level, well, ain't that an exercise in futility. Next step, oh my the difficulty, simply advertise your IP addresses (IPv4) and your IPv6 address range. There is a sneaky way of doing this with links, so the web domain names appears in the hyperlink but the actual IP address is used instead of the domain name.

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  27. Tickling the kipper by wkwilley2 · · Score: 1

    the nefarious phenomenon of obscenity and pornography that has an imminent role to corrupt and vitiate the youth of Pakistan

    Yeah, because the spread of islam and radical forms of any religion don't already do this.

    If every guy polished their wax statue once a day, I think this world would be much more peaceful.

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  28. 400k sites? by sootman · · Score: 1

    Dang it. I *knew* my computer was running slow the other day. They must've hacked in to my computer and downloaded my bookmarks file.

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  29. It's their country by Rastl · · Score: 1

    Their country, their rules. If people don't like it they can either oust the government and install a new one or leave.

    Is it censorship? Sure. But it's the responsibility of the people who are being censored to do something to resolve it.

  30. Only 400,000 Sites? by PPH · · Score: 1

    So, just the stuff with camels then.

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