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Pakistani Court Orders All Of Facebook To Be Blocked Over Page It Doesn't Like
from the sledge-hammer dept
Remember back in 2008, when Pakistan ordered YouTube to be blocked and took down a chunk of the wider internet outside of Pakistan in the process? One hopes they've got the technical details worked out this time, because Mr. LemurBoy alerts us to the news that the Pakistani High Court is so disturbed by the fact that there's an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" page (hopefully you've already heard why that's controversial...) on Facebook that it has ordered all of Facebook to be blocked through the end of May. Originally, only that specific page had been ordered to be blocked, but apparently that wasn't enough:
Lawyers with the Islamic Lawyers Forum appealed to the higher court on Wednesday, saying the entire site should be blocked because it had allowed the page to be posted in the first placeOf course, that makes me wonder. If someone created a similar webpage just "on the internet," would Pakistan order that all of the internet should be blocked? If it was on a piece of paper, would all paper be blocked from import?
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Ding!
I have to draw Mohammed tonight!
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Typo?
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[sarcasm]We should ban pencils so nobody can draw Mohammed.[/sarcasm]
What a sad bunch or idiots.
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This is no big deal. You have to understand that Pakistan just practices a different form of totalitarianism than we do.
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Ever Wonder
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Bugs out
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Win
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Irrationality, unridiculed becomes normality.
This is a scale, highly detailed drawing of the prophet Mohammed asleep on the sand.
Sorry, but I can't seem to get the eyelashes just right.
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so on every web page across earth
as they said during the french revolution
LET THEM EAT CAKE
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If The Internet Would Just Obey The Law ...
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on internet same behavier
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Not Right!!
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step 2: take random line from the article, say the exact opposite, and pretend that's enough reason for the article to be wrong.
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And spare the Christian remarks, if you please. So not a Christian or a Jew or anything like that.
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I think the people who made that bad page and who supported have no religion, because no religion allow to hurt.
the people who did this would not be forgiven.
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That applies pretty much to all religions out there.
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Also, why the blocking? To prevent others from seeing what *you* don't like? Let others decide on their own if they want to see it or nope.
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And yes, I include Christian, Jewish, etc, etc fundamentalists. You're all doing nothing but using religion to control populations and provoke fear.
There is no god and organised religion has caused virtually every single war in the history of humanity. Fucking retards.
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...although it certainly explains a lot of the crap that happened the last decade!
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The Difference
The difference is tolerance. One of the Islamic pages I found was "There is No God But Allah". Some followers of Islam want to enforce respect for their religion onto the rest of the world while at the same time offering no such respect to any other religion. Demand tolerance, but do not give it.
The most vocal Muslim responses to pointing this out are almost always near unreadable rants composes of juvenile insults and threats. This is what the rest of the world sees: intolerance, hypocrisy, hatred and violence.
No matter what an actual religion teaches, it will be judged by the actions of its followers.
I think the ban of Facebook is just a show. The number of pro-Islamic/anti-everything else pages on Facebook is my evidence. By banning Facebook, they are cutting themselves off from a global recruitment tool. It's nothing more than using the international news agencies as your advertising department.
They will continue to try and control Facebook. Who knows, Facebook might be as spineless as Viacom and give in. But the ban on Facebook will be short and temporary because every day they block it, is a day they can't use it to connect with new members and spread their messages of intolerance to the rest of the world.
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that is the best thing that PTA did to tell the face book owners that they are not obeying there own low
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Pakistanis a nation of bastards
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who is the real idiot??
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Having spiritual/religious beliefs is fine. Even if those beliefs say "there is no God", that's fine too.
But using those beliefs to justify ignorance and bigotry and a complete misunderstanding of other cultures, while at the same time proclaiming that your beliefs are the only "right" beliefs, is just plain stupid.
For me, toleration of another person's religious/spiritual beliefs ends the second they attempt to use their beliefs to justify stupid, irrational behaviour ("God made me kill this man!" "Allah said to punish the heretics!" "Jesus said we should bash the gays just because they're gay!") that no sane, learned man would ever participate in.
People who believe in the faith of Islam are fine by me. But when they start saying things like "death to those who defy Islam" just because we don't believe in it...well, then, that's when I stop tolerating those people and start looking at them as someone who's dangerous to themselves, other people, and society as a whole.
We don't need a society built on fear and intimidation and hatred of those who think differently; we need a society who is willing to tolerate - even love - people for their different ways of thinking, and respect those differences without resorting to rash, illogical behaviour just because we don't see eye-to-eye.
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