Pakistan's Internet censorship

[T-Faz]

Wow!! how selfish?? We are discussing something important here and you are watching ****..

It is not a **** site, it is the french equivalent of Youtube but the french are more open minded and allow nudity, nothing wrong in that.

It is of higher quality then Youtube and I urge more people to use it because overall they are of higher caliber.

 

[jagjitnatt]

BEfore quote read my msg CAREFULLY with OPEN EYEZ i said Turkish hackers hacked FB Pages (which contain stuff against muslims and our relign)

I am currently on the page browsing the pics.

 

[samika]

can someone provide the link of the page we are talking about..

 

[ejaz007]

Facebook disappoints at being blocked in Pakistan
Updated at: 1415 PST, Thursday, May 20, 2010


WASHINGTON: Facebook is disappointed at being blocked in Pakistan over a contest that encourages users to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and may make the offending page inaccessible to users there, the social network said late Wednesday.

"We are very disappointed with the Pakistani courts' decision to block Facebook without warning, and suspect our users there feel the same way," Facebook said in a statement to French news agency.

"We are analyzing the situation and the legal considerations, and will take appropriate action, which may include making this content inaccessible to users in Pakistan," it said.

Pakistan blocked access to Facebook on a court order over a competition created by a Facebook user who set up a page called "Draw Mohammed Day," inviting people to send in caricatures of the Muslim prophet on May 20.

Islam strictly prohibits depictions of Prophet Mohammed as blasphemous and Muslims around the world staged angry protests over the publication of satirical cartoons of the prophet in European newspapers in 2006.

The statement from the Palo Alto, California-based social network said "we want Facebook to be a place where people can openly discuss issues and express their views, while respecting the rights and feelings of others.

Facebook disappoints at being blocked in Pakistan

 

[DaRk WaVe]

I don't understand what good has banning these sites done, the Blasphemous material is available all over the Internet, this means they are going to ban the whole Internet???

seems courts have nothing good to do except playing 'ban ban ban unban'

Seems Muslims want a world of their own where the whole world is 'Dar-ul-Harb' & after that there is total control over lives of the people

Trust me if we started protesting like this & our courts became efficient like this on every issue, We will Rule this world

 

[jagjitnatt]

can someone provide the link of the page we are talking about..

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day! | Facebook

 

[Evil Flare]

PTA walay shukar kar rahay hain hamain b koi kaam mila hey jab say PTA organization bani hey LOLzz

Phokat mein hi kaam hi salary le rahe the
ab kaam karwao in se ..

& who will block porno ??

 

[khanz]

GOOD WORK PTA!! Pakistan in Action!! i heared about Turkish Hackers hacked Facebook Pages!! GOOD WORK!! Latest News is PTA Banned 450 Websites today.

Govt MUST BANNED Cheap Messages and Fonecalls so that new generation stop spending thr important time on these Bs and concentrate on Studies and rest of important thingS!

"PAKISTAN IN ACTION"

you've gone insanse why stop there just the ban the whole internet so young people stop so much time on it it's not like the pakistani government has more important issues to deal with than ban popular websites

 

[shining eyes]

fuk the mdrfukers they may have fixed that.............worst ppl on the earth.....

 

[Awesome]

3 out of 4 are already banned as of now. Welcome to the Fascist world, the world the Mullah-Military alliance has ever wanted and the Judiciary has jumped the bandwagon many times.

Other than facebook (which is (wrongfully) banned until 31st May) the rest are open.

 

[T-Faz]

Dailymotion - Online Videos, Music, and Movies. Watch a Video Today!

DailyMotion is good because you can get the best of both worlds in one place, if you know what I mean. ; )

Work and pleasure together, this should be their motto. Another good thing about this ban is that people utilize other sites which are overall better than the banned ones.

I hope you people can understand that, as for Samika, get off DailyMotion and came back to the topic.

 

[Kompromat]

Hacking wont help , we need to change minds of those people by giving them the knowledge that they dont have about the Prophet SAW.

Prophet SAW prayed for those who threw stones at him and made him bleed to His Toes in Taif and after 20-30 years the whole Taif was Muslim.

He was the one who spread his shawl on the ground for his opposers that they can sit on it while they talk.

They are defaming our Prophet SAW but somewhere in their mind they are aware of that why He was put on the top of the list of 100 most influencial Humans of all times, before jesus and everyone.

We do need to react by not spreading haterd because this is what those people are doing , we need to spread knowledge.


Lets pray together that "May Allah (swt) give all of those people hidayah " and i am optimistic that if not them , someone from their coming generation would come to Islam not with hate but to embrace it with whole of their hearts.
Amen.

 

[jagjitnatt]

fuk the mdrfukers they may have fixed that.............worst ppl on the earth.....

The page was never hacked. All the things are still there and none seem to be reposted.

The news is false. Maybe they had a glitch in the network and made a fuss of it.

 

[Awesome]

Flickr down as well now.

Meanwhile Jihadi websites, Taliban sympathizing websites, Child pornographic websites aren't banned.

Flickr is also banned in many countries due to its weak policies on pornography, its been banned in UAE from its inception.

 

[ejaz007]

Pakistan blocks YouTube over blasphemous material
Updated at: 1200 PST, Thursday, May 20, 2010


ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube in a bid to contain blasphemous material, officials said on Thursday.

The blockade came hours after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to stop access to social network Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) in gross violation of fundamental human rights pertaining to one’s religion.

Wahaj-us-Siraj, the CEO of Nayatel, an Internet service provider, said PTA issued an order late on Wednesday seeking an "immediate" blockade of YouTube.

"It was a serious instruction as they wanted us to do it quickly and let them know after that," he said while talking to a UK-based news agency.

YouTube was also blocked in the Muslim country in 2007 for about a year for what it called un-Islamic videos.

A PTA official, who declined to be identified, said the action was taken after the authority determined that some sacrilegious caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad were transferred from Facebook to YouTube.

Representation of any prophet is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous in Islam, let alone the caricature or cartoon of these divine personages.

Siraj said the blocking of the two websites would cut up to 25 percent of total Internet traffic in Pakistan.

"It'll have an impact on the overall Internet traffic as they eat up 20 to 25 percent of the country's total 65 giga-bytes traffic," he said.

Publications of similar cartoons in Danish newspapers in 2005 sparked deadly protests in Muslim countries. Around 50 people were killed during violent protests in Muslim countries in 2006 over the cartoons, five of them in Pakistan.

Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Denmark's embassy in Islamabad in 2008, killing six people, saying it was in revenge for publication of the caricatures.

Pakistan blocks YouTube over blasphemous material