Why do people keep insisting on calling it the "So-called" great firewall of China.
There is no contention about the existence of the thing, and that is the chosen name for it.
Several Pakistanis are taking their government to court in a bid to stop the ‘illegal’ blocking of sites for political purposes and to force the authorities to shelve current plans for a nation wide web filtering system similar to the so-called Great Firewall of China. Local newspaper The News International reported that the …
They are only blocking blasphemy. People who say bad things about the baby Jesus don't deserve to be heard, do they?
It's an Islamic country, so it would be saying bad things about the prophet Muhammed surely? I think you're confusing Pakistan with the USA; I know they both have slight fundamentalist tendencies in places so I guess it's easy to do ;)
"It's an Islamic country, so it would be saying bad things about the prophet Muhammed surely?"
No. Mohammed is the central figure in Islam, but Jesus is considered a prophet also and therefore criticism of Jesus could also be considered blasphemy by muslims (and punishable in countries like Pakistan).
"No. Mohammed is the central figure in Islam, but Jesus is considered a prophet also and therefore criticism of Jesus could also be considered blasphemy by muslims (and punishable in countries like Pakistan)."
Actually no. It has morphed into anything negative towards even the name Mohammed. In fact, not so long ago someone was charged with blasphemy for tearing up a business card of a guy named Mohammed and throwing it in the trash so we can expect much of the same strangeness from any online laws.