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Is Banning Facebook Constitutional in Pakistan?
by Farieha Aziz https://www.legal-project.org/706/in-the-name-of-the-law Excerpt: Originally appeared in Newsline as "In the Name of the Law." It's been over a month since Facebook, YouTube and other sites were temporarily blocked in Pakistan. But the controversy is far from over. Early in June, the government expressed it's desire to try Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for blasphemy here in Pakistan while on June 23 the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to immediately block nine websites for publishing sacrilegious material; the websites included Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube and Google. As of June 30, the PTA had not taken action. Below is an article from the June issue of Newsline that asks the question, "Was the blanket ban on Facebook and subsequently other websites within the ambit of Pakistan's Constitution?" Read the complete original version of this item... receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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