DON’T BLOCK THE BLOG
Last week, I noted action by Pakistan’s government to block blogs that published the Mohammed Cartoons.
Dr. Awab Alvi e-mailed me about a campaign by free-speech activists across Pakistan to protest the censorship. From Dr. Alvi’s site:
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 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.
Plus + Ultra is one of the banned blogs. Shire Network News has a podcast with Tracy Twyman, who runs the blog. Song parody here.
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