Should we all take offence at anything we don't like or disagree with?
Pakistan blocks Twitter, then changes its mind
Tweets offensive to Islam have prompted Pakistan’s government to block Twitter – but a strong public reaction saw the ban lifted after eight hours. The ban had been prompted by tweets promoting a competition to produce images of the prophet Muhammed that led the country’s telecommunications authority to block access to the …
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Monday 21st May 2012 07:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Encouraging
I find it very encouraging that the Pakistan Gov has back-tracked on what is normally a very inflammatory subject. It shows that there are limits to government interference.
Sure it may have been practice for restrictions later down the line, but then it has also been practice for the population in responding to such restrictions.
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Monday 21st May 2012 08:34 GMT g e
I object to stupid people
But I see them everywhere....
Seriously though, any religion that does the equivalent of putting it hands over its ears, closing its eyes and going LALALALALALALALA whenever something it doesn't like comes along needs to grow up, move out of the dark ages, etc, etc.
The Catholics would be stuffed if they hadn't matured past THAT particular stage ;o)
Perhaps they need to declare electroma-tricity the tool of the infidel and chuck all their comms gear out so they reduce their chance of accidentally having to do the equivalent of getting into the fishtank and singing Jerusalem (Monty Python ref for those not in the know)
Fail cos well, if you wanna live in the dark ages that's fine but don't expect to be able to do it with interwebs and mobile phones.
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Monday 21st May 2012 09:09 GMT g e
Re: I object to stupid people
In the sketch the guy got into the cupboard/chest/etc whenever someone said 'mattress' I think and to get him out everyone else had to get into the fishtank and sing Jerusalem.
So yeah more of a getting into the tea-chest moment really, thinking about it, but the fishtank is a funnier image and no-one would have got the reference without that! (Apart from Hardline Python Fundamentalists, of course, who, it is rumoured, cannot suffer to see an image of a dead parrot ;o)
Facepalm for remembering it the wrong way round!
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Monday 21st May 2012 09:39 GMT toxicdragon
Re: I object to stupid people
There might be more than one version of this, but the one that I found, the guy puts a bag on is head, then someone gets into a tea chest and sings Jerusalem. and the more times it was said the more people were required to sing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEeLtqtNvU
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