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

[Fouad Bajwa]

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!

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On Aug 13, 2012 12:56 PM, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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).
>
> Fahd
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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