Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the decision of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to block access to twelve websites that posted the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, which appeared in the Danish daily "Jyllands-Posten".So I must admit my earlier assumption was wrong. Google/Blogger are apparently not cutting off their users in Pakistan--it is actually the Pakistan ISP.Go to Help-Pakistan.com for more information and a way to show your support.
The PTA, on 28 February 2006, ordered Internet Service Providers to block the website http://www.blogspot.com (or http://www.blogger.com), taking down thousands of weblogs hosted by this tool. "We believe that the decision to ban a website should only ever be taken by a judge, at the end of a fair trial. It is moreover unacceptable that the order to block a site should go through the PTA, which while apparently aiming to shut down one blog, hosted by blogger.com, led to the filtering of all websites sharing the same domain name," said the organisation.
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