[governance] Twitter officially shutdown to Internet users in Pakistan

[McTim]

not good, not good at all....What mechanism would a CIRP like thing
use to stop this sort of thing?  Is it likely that gov'ts would give
up sovereignty to a CIRP-like body/treaty?



On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Twitter officially shut down in Pakistan after Ministry of Information
> Technology and PTA meeting on 19th May 2012 in lieu of religious
> objections.
>
> Still identifying what are the issues and concerns of the authorities
> around this.

Why should we care what their concerns are?

Should we not be concerned more with enforcing the right to communicate??


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