Pakistan watches Google, other sites for blasphemy

[Seneca]

Pooor widdle muswims! What is it with all these thin-skinned monotheists? And don't think for a moment the christian evangelicals here in the U.S. don't entertain similar censorship fantasies.

Pakistan watches Google, other sites for blasphemy

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, Yahoo and Amazon, for sacrilegious content, while blocking 17 other, lesser-known sites it deems offensive to Muslims, an official said Friday.

The moves follow a temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has long struggled to figure out how strict a version of Islam it should follow.

Both the Facebook ban and the move announced Friday were in response to court orders. The sites to be monitored include Yahoo, Google, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Amazon and Bing, said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran.

"If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the (link) shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website," Mehran said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100625/ap_on_hi_te/as_pakistan

[kenny blankenship]

1. And this dear friends is our PARTNER in the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaida

(They have also been and remain sponsors of the same)

It's the other side of the world and people ARE DIFFERENT over there. I wish there had been more consideration given to the possibility of irreconcilable differences and the sticky problems that might arise from them, before we went charging to the other side of the world to force Central Asia into the global marketplace, and to bring them the Enlightenment and liberal democracy, and other pretexts. But we just don't seem to learn, even from burned fingers.

[Ron Green]

2. If your religion doesn't have tolerance and forgiveness as a major principle,

you've got a bad religion.

[AsahinaKimi]

3. Wow..

They are worse then China. China only has half of those blocked!

[stopbush]

4. Blasphemy - THE victimless crime.