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September 16, 2013 11:24 am GMT
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Pakistani Activists Smell A Mole In Government's Proposed YouTube Filtering Plan
After ignoring repeated requests to appear in a court case challenging the Pakistan government's year-long YouTube blackout, the country's elusive IT minister is expected to appear at a hearing later this month to outline plans to drop the blanket ban -- and instead selectively restrict "blasphemous" and "offensive" material on the video-sharing site. However, activists have decried the move as a Trojan Filter that will precipitate a far-reaching internet surveillance regime.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nCtjWsTUIHo/
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