China yes. Indonesia and Malaysia, Im not aware of what provisions facebook/google has there. Same for India.
And why not? Especially if the publicity generated for them in the ‘right’ demographic outweighs the advertising power of the banned group?
the only thing in common with pirate bay is that its a banned site. but that has never been my argument. that sites can be banned for illegal behavior is not under question. the reasons given, the manner in which it is done, the lack of specificity of the ban enabling applicability to pretty much every large site that has user generated content, the timing of it, the publicity given to the group is what I have been criticising.
Facebook, arguable. I dont use it much, but it must provide a function if its so popular. I imagine its a replacement of this forum. I dont believe you when you say you can live without google (or a similar search engine, such as bing or yahoo which would have exactly the same problem as google, and therefore would be banned on the same basis). How exactly do you get by?
Because of the lack of specificity in the ruling, allowing to ban any site with user generated content and relatively open moderation rules (as subsequent actions showed). The .com domain can be seen to be an organization (though not privately owned) operated by verisign. A lot of sites on the .com domain are offensive in content. verisign makes a profit from operating the .com domain. Ban .com.
Probably can be expanded to other domains, and a few more.. .net, .edu and so on and you’ve effectively disconnected from the internet as we know it.
Yea limit yourself to technologies that dont have UGC. When that particular vendor develops a UGC platform, abandon it because its going to get blocked soon? Thats the approach to take is it.
Not really. Pakistani developers are usually disadvantaged compared to the people they compete with. Indians, russians, east europeans etc.. plenty of people around willing to do the same work for the same cost. Bad enough as it is that outsourcing brokers warn people not to give projects to Pakistanies because they dont have electricity access.
Heres where you tried to do a little dodge. In the previous analogy for your ‘slippery slope’ google et al were speeders who didnt get tickets. Now they’re just walkers 
And Bing blocks Islamically offensive content?
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And for the record, the suggestion was that Pakistan would survive without Google, and I whimsically suggested that maybe even local developers would get a chance to show their stuff…if such talent exists. So yes, ravage, take that as seriously as you want…whatever spins yer wheel.
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So you werent serious. So I’ll ignore that.