<p dir="ltr">Somebody on the other side of the border thought I was government too and they defaced and knocked out my website which I found funny but the amusing thing was they replaced my index.php file with their matrix movie animated wallpaper and a patriotic song by A.R.Rehman calling us lazy geeks pakiots lol!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Fôöòóōõœø</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 13, 2012 12:56 PM, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com">fahd.batayneh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">While summer is coming to an end (at least in my part of the world), it seems that censorship is spreading like a heat wave. In Jordan, the ministry of ICT has been pushing for this issue as they have been pressurized by many Jordanian citizens to do so. Even worst, some local hackers have threatened to hack all governmental web content if the government does not filter web content (mainly porno content).<br>
<br>Fahd<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Fouad Bajwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The Pakistani Telecom Regulator, its Ministry of IT and the
Interministerial parliamentary committee are ordering and implementing online content and URL filtering blocking.<br>
<br>
This time it has somehow gone a bit too public while the same guy and
president of the Internet Service Providers association who first advised and helped the association to support the government to issue
an RFP for the implementation earlier this year for implementing a National Firewall for the country is now opposing blanket censorship<br>
crackdowns since he isn't in the loop ;o) So is there a censorship mechanism in place, we would suppose so.<br>
<br>
Anyways, its Online content blocking and censorship season again and
this time its not even the usually suspected content but more of some intimate phone calls between politicians and heads of government
departments hidden marriages and leaks!!!<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-16721-PTA-orders-blocking-of-scandalous-stuff-on-internet" target="_blank">http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-16721-PTA-orders-blocking-of-scandalous-stuff-on-internet</a><br>
<br>
Who needs to talk to the authorities about ITU, WCIT, ITRs etc when
they are good at managing critical internet resources ;o)<br>
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