Pakistan blocks Twitter amid blasphemy fears
Twitter closed after he refused to remove the tweets that promote a site for callers to display images of the Prophet Muhammad
Pakistan unruly users have been silenced Twitter shortly after the government closed the site amid fears blasphemous images can be distributed.
Muhammad Yasin, president of the Telecommunications Authority of Pakistan said that the micro-blogging site was closed on Sunday after refusing to remove the tweets that promote a Facebook page encouraging people to post pictures of the Prophet Muhammad.
said Facebook has agreed to address concerns of Pakistan, but officials had managed to convince Twitter to do the same. "We negotiated with them until last night, but has not agreed to remove the material, so he had to block," said Yaseen.
Facebook and Twitter officials were not immediately available for comment.
The ban was largely irrelevant for tech-savvy users. The members of Twitter, most with the help of online articles in the Pakistani media that explain how to avoid curbs, agents installed to protect Web browsing. Once back online, most tweets sent by anger at the closure.
- Farieha Aziz, the advocacy group Bhi Bolo said the government was to repeat the mistake of 2010 when Facebook was blocked for two weeks because of a page group called everyone Draw Mohammed. Although there were protests in the years to operate until the last event, Aziz said that the advertising ban has given the largest group, especially in Islamic countries outside Pakistan.
- "This year, however, everyone was completely unaware of this," he said. "The closure of Twitter just drive more traffic to them."
The Web is increasingly important among the urban middle class growing in the country. A campaign by Imran Khan, the cricketer turned politician before, with more than 270,000 Twitter followers, was particularly popular.
addition to blocking Facebook and Twitter, the government tried in the past to monitor text messages derogatory and insulting government figures seen as a firewall court to examine any potential web traffic.
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