You really do know current affairs in Pakistan well;) Yea, things improve but slowly and maybe for the sake of closure, we do find the killers of Benazir. I am a Pakistani and you all can say its a nuclear armed nation of Taliban but trust me, its way better than that. I see hope and when you grow to take your grand children to school, you will see a better image of Pakistan and a Pakistani is saying this to you.
I work 45 hour week in IT and more to improve my skills and trust me what worries me a zillion times more than FB and youtube blocks is my access to online forums and my 2 hours of study/blogging/ helping other techies and geeks and seeking info myself and whether my family gives me the time to sit on a computer reading webhosting/data center technology/*nix stuff.
Oh, so you think that denying the holocaust is ok as well and should in fact be encouraged in order to preserver freedom of speach, and that those offended are hyper-sensitive extremists?
Yes, I think that denying the Holocaust should be legal. But why does that mean that it should be encouraged, and why would that help preserving freedom of speech? The evidence is clearly in favor of the Holocaust having existed, but that does not mean that it should be a crime to say that you don't believe it happened. Of course you would be ridiculed and criticized, but freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism.
I also find the comparison somewhat ridiculous. The Holocaust was a genocide of enormous proportions, and it is understandable that people are very upset when you claim that it didn't happen. It is not in any way comparable to a few cartoons. It is not understandable that people are so upset about a few cartoons that they threaten to kill the cartoonist or even actually physically assault him, nor is it understandable that you demand that freedom of speech should be curtailed because of it.
The skeptics of holocaust say this genocide did not happen on the massive scale quoted generally so why loathe them as they never believe it happened. For them there was no genocide and they have their own reasons to believe so like the ones who believe in the HOLOCAUST.
If I say a few people butchered a family say christian or hindu or muslim in my street and ban anyone from discussing it in my street, would it seem reasonable? If I loathe you for talking about it in my street as you believe it did not happen, would you call me sane? Discussing holocaust and nazism is banned not in a street but in an entire country which is even harder to implement but still has been done.
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You really do know current affairs in Pakistan well ;) Yea, things improve but slowly and maybe for the sake of closure, we do find the killers of Benazir. I am a Pakistani and you all can say its a nuclear armed nation of Taliban but trust me, its way better than that. I see hope and when you grow to take your grand children to school, you will see a better image of Pakistan and a Pakistani is saying this to you.
I work 45 hour week in IT and more to improve my skills and trust me what worries me a zillion times more than FB and youtube blocks is my access to online forums and my 2 hours of study/blogging/ helping other techies and geeks and seeking info myself and whether my family gives me the time to sit on a computer reading webhosting/data center technology/*nix stuff.
Oh, so you think that denying the holocaust is ok as well and should in fact be encouraged in order to preserver freedom of speach, and that those offended are hyper-sensitive extremists?
Yes, I think that denying the Holocaust should be legal. But why does that mean that it should be encouraged, and why would that help preserving freedom of speech? The evidence is clearly in favor of the Holocaust having existed, but that does not mean that it should be a crime to say that you don't believe it happened. Of course you would be ridiculed and criticized, but freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism.
I also find the comparison somewhat ridiculous. The Holocaust was a genocide of enormous proportions, and it is understandable that people are very upset when you claim that it didn't happen. It is not in any way comparable to a few cartoons. It is not understandable that people are so upset about a few cartoons that they threaten to kill the cartoonist or even actually physically assault him, nor is it understandable that you demand that freedom of speech should be curtailed because of it.
The skeptics of holocaust say this genocide did not happen on the massive scale quoted generally so why loathe them as they never believe it happened. For them there was no genocide and they have their own reasons to believe so like the ones who believe in the HOLOCAUST. If I say a few people butchered a family say christian or hindu or muslim in my street and ban anyone from discussing it in my street, would it seem reasonable? If I loathe you for talking about it in my street as you believe it did not happen, would you call me sane? Discussing holocaust and nazism is banned not in a street but in an entire country which is even harder to implement but still has been done.