[governance] Pakistan to ban shutdown Facebook.com for 24hrs as

[Milton L Mueller]

Notice that the advocates of a ban equate an action by a Facebook user with an action by Facebook itself. How do we drive home the notion of user-generated content and the idea of placing responsibility on the endpoints to non-internet users, or would that make any difference? That an objection to one page does not require a ban on an entire site. 

--MM
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>A Pakistani court has issued a ban on the social networking site
>Facebook after a user-generated contest page encourged members to 
> post caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.
>
>The Lahore High Court on Wednesday instructed the Pakistani
>Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to ban the site after the Islamic
>Lawyers Movement complained that a page called “Draw Mohammed Day” is
>blasphemous. 

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