Twitter blocked in parts of Pakistan

I just want to ask few questions to that High School Teacher. First of all what are those grave consequences? is it 0ne can not know what’s going on in his/her friends’ lives? or can not see pictures of friends?
Another question is that how she used to help her students in ongoing studies and making future decisions when there were not any face book or twitter? It sounds that her students’ future depend on the these social networking sites only? If its true that what she is teaching in school?
The controversial page named “Draw Muhammad Day” had been created by a Facebook user to protest on the decision of US television channel, Comedy Central to to cancel an episode of the popular show “South Park” over its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).
If they can do such a humiliating act in the name of protest so why can’t we just ban that site which can cause them loss in billions?
There’s a reaction of every action. If pakistan wouldnt impose ban on such sites so how could they know that we wouldnt tolerate any thing against our Prophet(PBHU)? why we became so much addict of such social netwroking sites that we can not think to live without it? It is disgusting that we can compromise on offensive acts against Muslims but not on our so called basic rights…Recommend

if it is “” It is a childish and immature reaction, “”

then Why UAE, China and Iran has also blocked it ?

Can anybody explain ? these all countries are fool ?Recommend

Asma baji lets not talk about facebook. This article is about TWITTER. Now can you tell me why twitter was banned?Recommend

@dk: uhh… YES!
UAE: Idiots sitting on oil and then using it built the “biggest and largest” that and this while its social structures weakens! Plus, it advertises itself as the most pro west investor friendly country!

China: The country which frequently violates almost every human right in existence. May I remind the Tienanmen Square, Tibet’s independence issue and oh yeah… it bans everything and anything that speaks against its govt… yes China can teach us a lot BUT on human rights; it is like asking a gardener about rocket science!

Finally, Iran: Yes, a country with a long history of theocratic dictatorship…. aside from banning everything that goes against its ideology, Iran recently displayed the corruption in its “democratic” process when Ahmedinajad was re-elected in a clearly rigged election. What followed next was a HUGE protest movement by the Iranian youth but a crackdown soon followed which started a bit similarly like our govt.’s actions…..

Maybe that’s what we need now…. the educated youth of the country to take to the streets and demand the final vestiges of democracy be protected.Recommend

Dk, these countries have blocked Facebook because of their extremely tight censorship policies. China prohibits criticism of the government and they don’t allow any such sites where people can air their opinion against the government. The same applies to the other countries which are highly repressive of their citizens.
You tell me now, are you the fool to want to live under such a system?Recommend

Finally we(Pakistanis) realize the power of information. Whether it will be used for good or evil is yet to be seen.Recommend

Salaam All.

Please hear me out before you call me a whacko!

Have any of you recently read stories about how the government wants to limit internet/media due to the true/bad publicity they are creating for the government?? Not only in Pakistan but worldwide? The internet is becoming a headache for governments worldwide.

Think for a moment!!!

Do you think the government might be using this cartoon issue (despicable as it may be) as an excuse to limit access to free information to the public??

Go one step further!

Could the government have fanned the flames on this issue on purpose so that the mass public itself would demand restrictions on the net?? And it would demand the government ban certain sites that promote ‘freedom of speech’??

Is there a conspiracy here that we are failing to see??

What real steps did our ‘Islamic’ government take in response to the flushing of the Qur’an down the toilet by American soldiers??

Why the renewed faith all of a sudden??

Are we Pakistanis unknowingly falling into a trap???

Are we being manipulated into giving up our access to free information??

THINK!!!

I am very serious here.

Soon… because of what we ourselves demanded… the banning of Facebook… the governement is now banning all channels to information including YouTube, Wikipedia, Rense.com, and soon.. we will only have access to that information which the government feeds us.

I smell something rotten!!Recommend

this is insane..twitter has nothing to do with that crap! they’re cutting us off from the rest of the world and our friends! however i support the decision of banning facebook. BUT I NEED TO USE TWITTER!Recommend

@absar : u jst said wat im thinking since morning. this whole fiasco doesn’t make sense. when PTa succeed to block tat particular page earlier this week than what was the point in blocking the whole site. and than blocking Wikipedia n twitter. for god sake do common Pakistani even understand internet. every possible human thought in this world is on internet than why r v creating such big deal out of this one when its not even doing n e good to the situation. tat ridiculous page saw increase in its fans since this whole ban thing started. v gave it free publicity n according to some reports these sites will only gain profit frm this whole thing. so i think in ur own way u all emotional fools participated in this sin. n jst for a moment ask urself wat will our beloved Prophet(p.b.u.h) would hav done in this situation. certainly He(p.b.u.h) wouldn’t hav made a fiasco out of it and certainly He wouldn’t hav allowed Muslims to suffer the burn of some sick mind’s mischief. i jst hope ppl of Pakistan come to their senses soon so tat v can go on with r lives n i can write against western society’s so called human rights instead of writing about the foolishness of my nation.Recommend

and i totally agree with Absar and Muneeb!Recommend

salam 2 all
banning FB is a gud act made by pta it should banned atleast 31 of the month bt the thing that is increases day by day that FB will have a huge loss by banning. sme1 tell me ven it reopens n 100000+ people will login then their loss vill itself heal up.Not only FB othr sitez r also banned, if there will b a limited sitez 4 info then hw v vill do our studiez or other in4mative work??? complete banning is not the soln. v should first follow the rules nd regulation our prophet(p.b.u.h)taught us. y don’t v try 2 make ourselves so strong by acting upon the steps our prophet(p.b.u.h) told us, nd make ourselvz strong 2 that point where such shameful people cant reach.v just show anger 4 few dayz and then all situation vill b normal as b4… y cant v try 2 seek a PERMANENT solution…if v vill not then such awwful people won’t stop trying 2 humilate our relegion… such site n people simply wants a fame which they got.Recommend

@ another muneeb: i know this is so irritating these protesters think tat all these sites r jst a way for bunch of teenagers to gossip. wat they fail 2 understand is tat sites like fb r helping small businesses to grow. n atleast for me youtube was not jst a mean of entertainment i used 2 learn through it as well, for example i learned how to oil paint through youtube. yeah surely i can live without learning new things or I’ll find another way to do so but being a citizen of a free country i shouldn’t hav to.Allah gave us free will than who r u to take it awayRecommend

twitter working in pakistan.
PTA has not banned twitter.
PTA respect those sites who do not promote blasphemous contents.Recommend

The government is now playing with the educational lot of Pakistanis who are rational enough to thinking about the good in context to the blanket ban of FB and other websites. The govt.is now over-reacting and trying to hide their own mischievous activities that have been on screen of millions of Pakistanis in the name of banning Youtube and wikipedia etc.
In the same case,blocking twitter which is not yet a confirmed news to me, will also be a real absurd attempt of PTA. Twitter is only a micro-blogging network and it has nothing to do with spreading immoral content regarding the blasphemy.Recommend

Twitter is blocked, It is confirmed. They are also trying to block proxy websites..personally i think they are doing the search on Google and they are blocking every other page that has the word ‘Everybody Draw’ :)

Damn it..Lets join hands and tell the solutions to all the people who want to use Facebook/Twitter/Youtube.

I just pray they don’t end up banning the internet in our country :PRecommend