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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

In terms of Content Policy and content regulation:

a) How far would you want to go to draw the line between what is
"Acceptable or palatable";
b)Should the creators of the site be served with a Notice to take down the page;
c)What is the extent of "free speech" in the world?;

One group's action in putting up the page has caused an entire nation
of facebook users to be cut off from using the social utility site.
How do we develop the balance adn what factors do we take into
consideration?

Even if they have National Filters, are there other means of bypassing
these National Firewalls or encrypting etc?

Warm Regards,

Sala

On 5/24/10, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> 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
> ________________________________________
>>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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