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Facebook to be blocked
Pakistan Today
September 20, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1694/facebook-to-be-blocked
Excerpt:
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Justice Sh Azmat Saeed on Monday ordered ministry of information and technology to block access to all websites in Pakistan especially American social networking website "Facebook", spreading religious hatred on internet and to submit a compliance report by October 6. The judge, however, made it clear that no search engine including "Google" would be blocked.
The court issued this order while hearing a petition seeking a permanent ban on the access to American social networking website "Facebook" for hosting competition featuring blasphemous caricatures.
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