Filtering words
"Patiskany gove really suxs"...I'm sure the young people from Pakistan can "come" :-) with better creative ways to overturn the censorship :-D
The Pakistani government has taken the unusual step of touting for firms it thinks could help build it a nationwide content-filtering service capable of blocking up to 50 million websites. In a move denounced by privacy campaigners and some technology providers, regulator the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority published a …
Sentences that contain sentiments unacceptable to the Pakistani government. Sentences like "India is okay" or "ISI is a waste of funding". Or worst of all, "Bangladesh is better off without us." [1]
And you thought censorship would be about sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. More fool you.
[1: if you don't have any idea what I'm talking about: here's a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War ]
Goodness me, these are their duly elected repressors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H representatives honour bound to protect these people, and this is exactly what they are doing, protecting the people from being bombarded with stuff that they should not be allowed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H have to see. All governments do this, Pakistan are just behind the curve and need to catch up.
Presumably the interwebs filter will not apply to government ministers after all they will need "approved" gateways to access to "international news" sources as part of their job.
It's maybe stretch to find any specific verse in their Koran mentioning the virtue of web hacking per se, but is there any doubt that it's OK to do that as far as we infidels are concerned? The Paki's just want to enshroud everything possible under Islam.... whatever they say.
This would be an enticing new study-project for WikiLeaks....right? It's probable that Islamic taqiyya can be worked against these Islamists, Taqiyya works flexibly in several directions, right?