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May 20, 2012 06:53 pm GMT
Pictures of the Prophet Mohammad have always been a highly contentious issue -- they're not explicitly prohibited in the Qu'ran but many Sunni Muslims forbid the idea, while others do not seem to mind as much. Among the latter group are those who feel that banning such images is a restriction on freedom of expression. The issue at the center of the Pakistan-blocks-Twitter story today has been reported to be around a viral activist campaignthat's been running for the past few years to point attention to this.But as with the actual blocking of Twitter itself in Pakistan -- there has been no official Pakistani government statement about what is actually behind the current Twitter block at the moment (here isa screenshot of analleged email ordering the block to ISPswith no specific reason behind it)--it's hard to pin down exactly what content was actually sent around that caused the block in the first place.And at least one group is raising the question of whether this blockage could be related to the government testing a image filtering service -- something with wider-ranging implications.
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Pictures of the Prophet Mohammad have always been a highly contentious issue -- they're not explicitly prohibited in the Qu'ran but many Sunni Muslims forbid the idea, while others do not seem to mind as much. Among the latter group are those who feel that banning such images is a restriction on freedom of expression. The issue at the center of the Pakistan-blocks-Twitter story today has been reported to be around a viral activist campaignthat's been running for the past few years to point attention to this.But as with the actual blocking of Twitter itself in Pakistan -- there has been no official Pakistani government statement about what is actually behind the current Twitter block at the moment (here isa screenshot of analleged email ordering the block to ISPswith no specific reason behind it)--it's hard to pin down exactly what content was actually sent around that caused the block in the first place.And at least one group is raising the question of whether this blockage could be related to the government testing a image filtering service -- something with wider-ranging implications.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tlO7QbniSvE/
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