Ban the Internet

[Himalaya]

@ravage

Im not the one making the claim that ‘this is why it was banned’. Nevertheless we can glean the reasons based on this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052002023.html

Note no references to objections to policy or references to their policy wrt racial insults.

wonderful. google was open too. thank God for small victories.

I am against the ban for a whole number of reasons.

I am against it because where it is possible for people to avoid offensive content by not visiting a given webpage/website the courts should not need to ban it.

I am against it because this measure above all else has ensured that the draw Muhammad day got massive publicity, and we’ve all but ensured that this is an annual feature instead of an unsuccessful, ignored attempt at provocation.

I am against it because of the pathetic reasons given for banning it, and the precedence those set. This precendence ensures that the courts can basically ban anything that can be called offensive.

I am against it because of the lack of specificity. It would have been reasonable, as the PTA argued, to block the specific group on facebook that was conducting the competition. Instead the court ordered the whole site banned, a measure of astounding stupidity.

You are against the ban because you have a Western secular mind-set no other reason. You justify it with reasons which are not reasons but mumbo jumbo.

**You dont get it but what good would blocking the group do? The reality is thousands of Muslims on Facebook have protested against it peacefully. They have reported the communities but no action has been taken because Facebook believes in freedom of speech which nowadays ONLY translates as the freedom to insult Muslims. The reality is that Facebook has to give freedom to all hate groups equally or be more aware of cultures other than secular. Hit them where it hurts! **

Why are so many facebook communities opening with Islamaphobic aims? There are aspects of many religions which others will find disturbing yet why dont people who want freedom pick on them?

**The competition did ot get publicity because of the ban but it was already a well known thing. For once the government of Pakistan did something PRINCIPLED…why cant we salute them? **