Talk:Internet censorship in Pakistan

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1) This article should be specifically about all Internet Censorship in Pakistan, and not just the the ban on blogspot sites.

Agreed. As you may have noticed, this site was just put up, and it was Blogspot banning that motivated it. However, the hope is that people will add further general censorship details as time goes by. Beetle B. 18:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

2) Please don't be reverting the wiki article before discussing with other editors on this talk page, thank you. I've reverted to the changes made by 70.131.243.206 [nkb], she's spent a good amount of time trying to come up with a proper structure for the wiki page article. Secondly she did so upon request by me, please double-check with KO [history info was obtained from him]. cheers! Angeloe 21:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I did a rollback because of this diff[1]-Dakota ~ ° 21:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the spelling fix. It got lost on the rollback. Nkb

I wikified and restructured it to be more in line with Manual of Style. I saw this notice after doing so, but as I have not touched the content (info & tone) I hope there is no conflict. AshishGtalk 16:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

AsishG: Thank you for improving the look of the Article. While I know how to do wikis, you are much better informed about the Manual of Style. I appreciate your help. I can't sign in because I can't remember my password. I think I am going to add a little more and will try to sign my additions so that something shows up rather than my IP, which is not static. If you can help with the manual of style if I make mistakes, that would be very helpful. Nkb 3April06

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[edit] Listing of blocked sites

Would it not make sense to make a list of all the sites that are currently known to be blocked in Pakistan? Such a list has been started very recently at WikiPakistan. I would really be interested in figuring out which sites are being blocked and whether they are an ISP-level block or blocked through PIE or both. Hulleye 08:53, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

We should put this under Censorship in Pakistan as that deals with generally censorship. Until that page gets too big we don't need an Internet one as well. Skinnyweed 17:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


Did you know that Censorship in Pakistan redirects here?
Septegram 18:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Ban

Some Articles on wikipedia may also have been banned i have just come across one

Remember its not a blanket ban only specific articles.


The following is confirmed banned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy ChaoticSilence

[edit] The government of Pakistan currently has a simplistic IP based filtering procedure in place

This is simply not true anymore, as the ban on wikipedia articles shows.ChaoticSilence

[edit] Title Paragraph

This article does not have a title paragraph. Please refer to guidelines on writing an article. 172.201.134.2 01:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why just internet?

This is linked to as part of general censorship, but the article is internet censorship only...

[edit] Talk on References

Most of the early contributors on this page are citizens of Pakistan who are experts on the history of the Internet in their country. Their ID's are freely visible on the history page. I would suggest that their contributions to this knowledge is reference enough for this information. If you were to find actual references, it would likely be articles written by them or their associates or quoting their expertise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.163.136 (talk) 00:42, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube

Pakistan has now blocked YouTube.com over because of 'anti-islamic' movies being shown on there until further notice. Story on the link. http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=7623557 81.99.24.95 (talk) 21:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I've described the YouTube blocking incident in some detail at my blog, including links to detailed technical descriptions of what happened and how YouTube responded, including links to Wikipedia-appropriate reliable sources. http://lippard.blogspot.com/2008/02/pakistan-takes-out-youtube-gets-taken.html Lippard (talk) 03:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)