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“Pakistan”

May
26
2010

Pakistan will restore access to Facebook and YouTube

Pakistan will restore in the coming days access to websites Facebook and YouTube, but not on pages with content deemed “blasphemous” , the sites were blocked already for the last four days, said Wednesday the Ministry of Interior.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Saturday by order of the government access to [...]

May
26
2010

Pakistan’s facebook bans impel Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Twitter

As the news has already been flashed all over the world that in order to stop hosting “blasphemous” pictures of Prophet Mohammad Pakistan has banned Facebook , YouTube and other 1000 sites . Now Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik who is not able to log on to Facebook where he had a long list [...]

May
20
2010

Pakistan blocks YouTube to stop “blasphemous material on the net”

Pakistan now “blocked” You Tube : Pakistan government in Islamabad decided to obscure the popular sites Facebook and YouTube. After the publication of some cartoons of Muhammad considered blasphemous by a court in Lahore, the Telecommunications Authority has decided to block social networking and video sharing site, having failed in the undertaking to persuade [...]

Mar
11
2010

Spanish newspaper attack Google for denouncing “censorship” in the country

Google caused a stir with the press in Spain to compare the country to Iran and China, putting it among the nations that apply Internet censorship.
In a hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives United States of America in Washington on Wednesday, the vice president of Google, Nicole Wong, cited the [...]