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Pakistan Bans Wikipedia for 'blasphemous content'

33 pointsby yangikanover 2 years ago

9 comments

vfclistsover 2 years ago
The beauty about blasphemy in Islam is that it may be forbidden to narrate exactly what the blasphemous statement is before a court as that may be blasphemy in itself.<p>It takes a &#x27;credible&#x27; witness to state that a blasphemous statement was made and that is it.<p>Chew on that.<p>I really think Western media outlets should not give publicity to these demonstrations which can even turn violent because they are simply feeding the beast with the publicity it thrives on.<p>If the governments of &quot;Islamic&quot; states want to cut off their citizens access to the wider knowledge of the world for fear that they might be exposed to blasphemous statements they are entirely free to.<p>No one is bothered here.
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spaceman_2020over 2 years ago
I don’t know why more people aren’t worried about Pakistan. The country is becoming increasingly destabilized with a severe economic crisis underway already. A nuclear power with such instability is a risk to everyone.
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herewulfover 2 years ago
Bound and determined to live in the Dark Ages. Okay then.
evolve2kover 2 years ago
Any further details as to which pages in particular were found objectionable?
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downrightmikeover 2 years ago
Did they ban pornhub for excited female content?
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mhoadover 2 years ago
Certainly glad the US would never do anything so backwards and silly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;education&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;florida-hide-books-stop-woke-manatee-county-duval-county-desantis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;education&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;florida-...</a>
brokenmachineover 2 years ago
To religious zealots, reality is blasphemous.
stevefan1999over 2 years ago
Sometimes I wonder why those savage countries are not being eliminated by natural selection...rather they are more thriving than the normal countries
ryzvonusefover 2 years ago
Other websites banned in Pakistan include Tumblr, TMZ, Deustche Welle, Fanfiction.net, GreasyFork, OpenUserJS, UrbanDictionary and many other &quot;normal&quot; websites banned to the entire country for no good damn reason.<p>Some babu decides he doesn&#x27;t like a website and now 230 million can&#x27;t ever access that website ever again, and there is no recourse, just a &quot;surf safely&quot; label that will taunt you.<p>----<p>But what&#x27;s hilarious is when websites ban entire countries, I cannot access the ihop.com website because they have banned us!<p><pre><code> &gt; Error 1009 &gt; The owner of this website (www.ihop.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (PK) from accessing this website.</code></pre>