[governance] Its Internet Content Censorship, Blocking and Filtering Season again here! Woohoo!

[Fouad Bajwa]

The Pakistani Telecom Regulator, its Ministry of IT and the
Interministerial parliamentary committee are ordering and implementing
online content and URL filtering blocking.

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
crackdowns since he isn't in the loop ;o) So is there a censorship
mechanism in place, we would suppose so.

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!!!

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-16721-PTA-orders-blocking-of-scandalous-stuff-on-internet

Who needs to talk to the authorities about ITU, WCIT, ITRs etc when
they are good at managing critical internet resources ;o)

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