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May 20, 2012 02:58 pm GMT

Report: Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Blasphemous Content, Facebook Complies?

Another day, another example of a country making it harder for its citizens to use the web and some of its most effective channels of communication. There are reports coming in from Pakistan that it has become the latest country to ban the use of Twitter.According to the blog Dawn, the chairman of Pakistan's telecommunications authority has today imposed the restriction because of blasphemous content: it reports that Chairman Mohammad Yaseen blocked the site today "because Twitter refused to remove material related to a competition on Facebook to post images of Islams Prophet Muhammad." Facebook, apparently, has complied with the request, says the blog.Getting blocked in Pakistan is particularly ironic because the two, paired up, played a major role in one of the most important news events to be broken in recent history: the raid and demise of Osama bin Laden, which was tweeted byat least two peoplewatching the raids as they happened in the mountains of the country.

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