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Freedom Netted: Pakistan blocks blogs

2008-01-17T19:08:00.000-08:00

来源：PTI 转自：Rediff

Two weeks after the Pakistan government passed a new law with tough punishment for cyber crimes, hundreds of anti-establishment blogs have been blocked, bloggers said.

Access to blogspot.com, a hosting domain that contains hundreds of blogs by Pakistani students and activists opposing President Pervez Musharraf's rule and championing causes like the reinstatement of deposed judges, has been blocked or restricted across the country since Monday.

However, Information Technology Ministry member Nooruddin Baqai told The News that no instructions to ban certain websites had been issued by the Inter-Ministerial committee on national issues.

Students of various universities, including the prestigious Lahore University of Management Sciences, FAST-National University and Punjab University, had started hosting blogs. The trend registered a jump after Musharraf imposed emergency on November 3 last year and private TV channels were taken off cable networks.

Students who host a blog to bring out The Emergency Times on Tuesday added a new post telling people how to dodge the block and read their e-newspaper.

"In another desperate measure, the government has banned access to blogs (particularly blogspot/wordpress) from Pakistan. Hence, The Emergency Times and other such avenues of information are no longer accessible to Pakistanis. Don't worry. They can't stop us," read the post.

Some students have already started a movement "Slap the Ban" to protest against what they say is a measure similar to the ban imposed on TV news channels by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority.

The channels had to sign a government-mandated code of conduct before they were allowed to return to cable networks.

The blogs hosted by students and activists provided Pakistanis around the world information about the goings-on in the country following the imposition of emergency. The students worked round-in-the-clock in shifts to keep everyone updated.

And, over the months, they helped organise protests and became a link between the deposed judiciary and civil society. The blogs also gave fresh impetus to the student movement, which had been practically dead in Pakistan for three decades.

According to some students, they were running several research projects on these blogs. Work was in progress on one such project "Name, Shame and Campaign" at riseofpakistan.blogspot.

An IT expert, seeking anonymity, told The News that in September 2007, Google had for some unknown reasons suddenly reverted to its original Internet Protocol address, which had been put on the block list in Pakistan since March 2006.

"This move resulted in blocking all Internet traffic to the blogspot.com domain. The domain may have been blocked because of the same problem," he said.

Under the Cyber Crimes Ordinance, issued on December 31, 2007, acts of cyber terrorism can be punished with the death sentence or life imprisonment. The new law includes stiff punishment for violations of its other provisions.

The government will also set up special IT tribunals in Islamabad and the four provincial capitals to investigate and counter cyber crimes.

Society Against Internet Censorship in Pakistan

2007-09-09T02:06:00.000-07:00

转自：Don’t Block the Blog

Society Against Internet Censorship in Pakistan

Previsously referred to as Action Group Against Blogspot Ban In Pakistan has now expanded it domain and moved beyond the simple blocking of blogs and is now concerned with any type of Internet Censorship in Pakistan. This is a mailing list of like minded individuals who truly condemn the recent internet censorhip in Pakistan, join the group and take part in a very active discussion to organize efforts for the cause

Join the mailing list group at groups.google.com/group/AGABBIP

	Society Against Internet Censorship in Pakistan
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Don’t Block the Blog

2007-09-09T01:01:00.000-07:00

来源：Don’t Block the Blog

LAUNCHED BY THE ALVI-E TEAM (Awab Alvi & Omer Alvie) on March 3rd 2006, this is an online campaign to support free speech of Pakistani bloggers and internet free speech in general. Support our cause by copying the banner code (below) to your web site.

Since 28th February (2006), Pakistani Bloggers’ Freedom of Speech has been under attack by some, if not all, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who has chosen to block all blogs hosted on the blogspot.com domain. Political pressure groups have protested to the government to block those web sites displaying the controversial cartoon images of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) that were hosted on the net. But instead of blocking specific sites, ISPs have simply blacklisted the entire domain, causing thousands of blogs to be inaccessible for viewing in Pakistan.

It is our point of view, that any censorship of blogs is unacceptable, be it a few offensive sites inciting a hateful stereotype, or hundreds of blogs protesting controversial caricatures or even the thousands of sites that remain indifferent to the issue.

News Reports Appearing Globally Fighting for the Cause

Washington Post

The News

Ethan Casey - www.ethancasey.com

The Friday Times

Reporters Without Borders

Global Voices Online

International Freedom of Expression eXchange

We as Pakstani Bloggers object to this action and would like to request you to join in our cause and display either one of the banners condemning this action and appealing for an immediate change.

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24-hour Online Protest Against Internet Censorship

2007-06-09T19:52:00.000-07:00

来源：Help-Pakistan.com

Reporters without Borders is organizing a 24-hour Online Protest between 11 a.m. on 7 November and 11 a.m. on 8 November. This protest is to raise our voice against the 13 Governments that are being labelled as ‘Internet Enemies’. We as Pakistanis and activists of the Don’t Block the Blog where we condemn the Censorship of the Internet in Pakistan, would like to join this Online Protest alongside RSF to condemn all countries which are actively blocking the use of the Internet in their own countries

The protest start at precisely at 11 a.m. on 7 November to the next day ending at 11 a.m. on 8 November. Reporters Without Borders have outlined a few things which people can do to show their support. (read the entire list here)

Cyber Demo

Go to www.rsf.org during this 24-hour period, find the list of 13 countries that are Internet enemies and click on an inter-active map of the world to help make the Internet black holes disappear. Every click will help Reporters Without Borders to speak with more force when it condemns the behaviour of those regimes that censor.

Record a message for the founder of Yahoo!

Internet users from all over the world will have the chance to record a message for Yahoo!’s founder from their personal computers. Reporters Without Borders will make sure the messages get to him. Why Yahoo? Because this was the first company to censor its own search engine to curry favour with the Chinese authorities. And it has been collaborating with the Chinese police, leading to the arrest and conviction of freelance journalists.

Pakistanis In Support

Pakistanis fully support RSF in this Online Protest condemning Internet Censorship and strongly stress that the world community should also look at the horrible situation here in Pakistan where the Freedom of Expression remains at the mercy of the Government of Pakistan.

GFW BLOG（功夫网与翻墙）

Freedom Netted: Pakistan blocks blogs

Society Against Internet Censorship in Pakistan

Society Against Internet Censorship in Pakistan

Don’t Block the Blog

24-hour Online Protest Against Internet Censorship

Cyber Demo

Record a message for the founder of Yahoo!

Pakistanis In Support

Spread the Word & Make a Blog Post on Nov 7th/8th to Show Your Support