Pakistan

2 February 2012

New Book on Global Struggle for Internet Freedom

Written by Bernardo Parrella · Advocacy, activism

How do we ensure the Internet develops compatibly with democracy? And how do we become active “netizens” who take responsibility for our digital future? This is the subject of Rebecca McKinnon's new book: "Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom."

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9 February 2010

Pakistan: PTA Blocks President's “Shut-Up” Video

Written by Awab Alvi · Advocacy

Sunday evening [7th February 2010] Youtube.com started facing intermittent reports of irregular inaccessibility across various ISP's in Pakistan. It initially started off with a simple white page displaying the word...

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3 October 2009

Pakistan: Army Human Rights Video being censored

Written by Awab Alvi · Advocacy

A certain video showing images of Pakistan Army's military brutality during its offensive in Swat has surfaced across the web. BBC: The video shows of an officer in Pakistani army...

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2 August 2009

Pakistan: Funny SMS's may land Pakistanis in for a fourteen year prison sentence

Written by Awab Alvi · law, regulation

Pakistans' Minister of Interior Rehman Malik recently announced a 14 year prison sentence for anyone found propagating SMS and emails ridiculing or making fun of the present Pakistani leadership and its elected government officials. The statement issued by the Ministry of Interior actually referenced the Cyber Crime Act of 2009 which apparently may subject the violators to at least 14 years behind bars.

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17 June 2009

OpenNet Initiative Releases Results on Filtering in Asia

Written by Jillian York · Feature

From the Great Firewall to the Myanmar Wide Web, Asia is well-known for its practices in Internet filtering. China has long taken the lead in blocking Web sites, filtering sites...

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3 January 2009

Pakistan Censors Pictures of Governor - Harmful for the Integrity of Pakistan

Written by Awab Alvi · Advocacy

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the internet monitoring body in Pakistan has issued directives to all its ISP providers to block a list of six webpages on the grounds that they were “harmful for the integrity of the country.”

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24 February 2008

Pakistan: Partial Block of Youtube

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Pakistan

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed (see above) the country's ISPs to block access to the videos sharing website YouTube for allegedly featuring a blasphemous video.

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