Pakistan monitoring Google and six other websites for blasphemy

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#1 topsemag55
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An official says Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, for anti-Islamic content. It also is blocking at least 17 other, lesser-known sites it deems offensive to Muslims.

The sites to be monitored include Yahoo, Google, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Amazon and Bing.

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#2 cheesyjon
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Oh. Well it is their culture. People should have freedom, but oh well.

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#3 xTheExploited
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Whatever happened to Jinnah saying that Pakistan would be a secular nation?
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#4 SolidSnake35
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I bet they find a lot of content like that, haha.
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#5 PEELEDbanana
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Their loss, not ours.

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#6 Danm_999
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Their loss, not ours.

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True, but I don't like nations with nuclear weapons behaving this way.
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#7 Perd1t1on
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I highly doubt that's the real reason they are blocking those sites, if -they- are actually blocking those sites. People at the top are not stupid like people way at the bottom.

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#8 Snipes_2
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Awesome. Lol, That's just sad.

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#9 Ronstera
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Good thing I wasn't born in Pakistan..
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#10 MasterBolt360
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*facepalm* Well, it's certainly not America.

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#11 Nifty_Shark
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So they are going to stop links on google and such? they aren't preventing from actually using the site right?
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#12 Xx_Hopeless_xX
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Eh..whatever..doesn't effect me..

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#13 SaPhIrX_lOl
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Meh, doesn't affect me in any way so i don't care. :P

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#14 vj02
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Well, this is insane really. India has got Islamic culture too you know,but..oh well. They really need to learn how to tolerate things :P

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#15 taj7575
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Whatever happened to Jinnah saying that Pakistan would be a secular nation?xTheExploited

That went away a long time ago..:lol:

Pathetic what Pakistan is shaping out to be nowadays.

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#16 Hexagon_777
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What silly people they are. :lol:

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#17 nocoolnamejim
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Good to know that the U.S. isn't the only country *cough* Patriot Act*cough*cell phone records damned by the U.S. government*cough*illegal warrantless wiretaps*cough*...sorry about that...going to great lengths to monitor what's going on in the dangerous world of free expression on the Internet. I support free Internet and Net Neutrality. *chest pound* Regardless of which government is doing it. VIVA LA REVOLUCION!
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#18 SgtKevali
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Nice to see that the Pakistani government still apparently thinks that the Pakistani people are not mature enough to look around the internet without censorship. :roll:

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#19 Hexagon_777
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Nice to see that the Pakistani government still apparently thinks that the Pakistani people are not mature enough to look around the internet without censorship. :roll:

SgtKevali

It's like that in Saudi Arabia too. Just let the government think for you. :)

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#20 Loco_Live
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▲ I'm so tired of these extremists. ▲

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#21 TheDarthvader
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Well I'm from Pakistan, and for one think its completely bonkers. Blocking FB was stupid enough, this is two steps ahead. It just gives the govt a fake sense of accomplishment where as they've accomplished nothing.
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#22 taj7575
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Well I'm from Pakistan, and for one think its completely bonkers. Blocking FB was stupid enough, this is two steps ahead. It just gives the govt a fake sense of accomplishment where as they've accomplished nothing.TheDarthvader

And not to mention Pakistan is having a hard time defending their secularity. Even my Pakistani friends agree things aren't good with Pakistan.

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#23 789shadow
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Nice to know everyone in Pakistan is Muslim and would get offended.

Oh wait.....

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#24 Hexagon_777
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Nice to know everyone in Pakistan is Muslim and would get offended.

Oh wait.....

789shadow

Don't people in Pakistan speak Arabic according to Modern Warfare 2? :P

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#25 deactivated-57e5de5e137a4
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▲ I'm so tired of these extremists. ▲

Loco_Live
Would you say you were extremely tired?
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#26 789shadow
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[QUOTE="Loco_Live"]

▲ I'm so tired of these extremists. ▲

guynamedbilly

Would you say you were extremely tired?

I see what you did there. :P