#Pakistan #censorship: URL Filtering and Blocking

Contact Name: Susan Marie
Date of Occurrence: Sunday February 26, 2012
Time of Event: 06:00 PM
Location: Buffalo/Pakistan
URL/Source: http://247online.tv/

By March of 2012, The Pakistani Telecommunication Authority (PTA), may have succeeded in deployment of an Internet URL Filtering and Blocking system unless we, global citizens, along with the people of Pakistan, help prevent this from occurring.

As people become more aware and active globally, governments have begun to attempt to increase online censorship. Online censorship or filtering can be seen as justifiable when it may involve harmful content to children in educational systems, however, to censor or filter Internet usage in any fashion to adults, is in direct violation of constitutions and amendments that exist, against 14 of 30 Universal Human Rights, and the Constitution of Pakistan, as seen in the preamble alone.

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Condemnations of this action, along with information regarding this initiative have already begun by: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Civil Society Against Blanket Ban of the Internet and Freedom House.Org.

A petititon has been started: Stop The Firewall, Say No To Blanket Ban, Put and End to Censorship!

Censorship, in any form, is to silence.

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