Google chief suspects ulterior motive in Pakistan

When will the people of Pakistan undestand that this is actually a conspiracy by the government to block mediums such as fb and youtube for their own means. We are are an easily fooled nation, lacking logic and blinded by emotion. Hence the government always get away with these type of actions. People please stand up for your rights!! Recommend

Facebook and Youtube became the most successful medium of exposing the corrupt leaders and politicians of Pakistan, who can’t tolerate freedom of speech and don’t want the ordinary people of Pakistan to participate in daily discussions, so they blocked those sites.Mark my words, WordPress and other blogs will be the text target.Recommend

PTA should constitute a board of internet experts who should keep checking such objectionable material on the web. If they found any such item against ISLAM then that link should be blocked by PTA.Recommend

The person who created that page on Facebook must be arrested.Recommend

May be for keeping Musharraf away from his constituency!!!Recommend

RT When will the people of Pakistan undestand that this is actually a conspiracy by the government to block mediums such as fb and youtube for their own means. We are are an easily fooled nation, lacking logic and blinded by emotion. Hence the government always get away with these type of actions. People please stand up for your rights!! I agree with this… using the name of religion and keeping Musharaf away from his fans is the basic conspiracy…..FB is a bahanaaRecommend

I am not a Pakistani but I do believe in basic freedom of speech. I have no measure of the intensity of the protests against these bans in Pakistan but every protest counts. Every educated person must have a connection to the world & for those who cannot travel these sites are the best sources of information. These bans not only hinder the process of globalization but they also give a wrong idea of the country & its citizens. They say, the more tightly you hold the sand, the more it will slip away. So why harass people with these useless bans only to have them provoked in the end. Those in power must realize that these sites also promote integration & brotherhood & banning them only supports the claim that democracy in Pakistan is a misnomer.Recommend

schmidt can say whatever he wants but the fact remains that facebook and youtube are responsible 4 all the blasphemous content posted there and i,one of the pakistani youth, hv no doubt tha the ban decision is absolutely right.we do not want to use any such website whose masters hv such twisted ideas about so called “freedom of opinion”. we muslims respect all prophets but many people in the western world hv no regard and respect for any prophet particularly for Muhammad(peace be upon him).schmidt is so quick with “politics” allegation coz google is facing a financial loss.why doesn’t he remove the content offensive to millions of people worldwide? one nt allowed to talk against holocast i certain european countries.a british historian had to face jail in Austria only coz he said that the number of jews actually killed in holocast is far less than what is usually reported.Now wasn’t that political? and if pakistani govt took action against a couple of websites coz they published blasphemous content against Prophet Muhammad(PBUH),then it’s political???? Recommend

@Straybird I agree to and enjoy freedom of speech and the Pakistani Government has gone out of the way to take my right, but i have a few questions for you –

Facebook and YouTube have the “report” button – what is that for and how does it work because it failed to in this instance?
As democracy was spectacularly utilized in this protest – according to reports till last count the page for this competition had around 82000 members while the one against it had a separate page with close to 96000 members – who should prevail?
If 96000 people reported as hate speech – why did not Facebook act against it?
(This is for all the Pakis on the page) This episode opened the door to help start solving the basic problems of Pakistanis – PAY ATTENTION TO ALTERNATIVES!! we have spectacularly failed to utilize alternative methods. YouTube is only one of the hundreds of thousands of video sites. There are other sites like Facebook that offer social networking options and with better privacy (there is a global movement to leave FB on 30 May to protest convoluted privacy and information sharing by FB – also utilized by Mossad in the Dubai assasination) why can we not fore go cane sugar and switch to beetroot sugar in times of shortage? maize flour instead of wheat flour? soy milk for milk?
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@Gi I agree that they should have acted faster but then was banning the sites all together was the only solution? Was facebook only about that page alone? Also, what about the 600 other sites that are banned? The problem lies in the rhetoric- if you don’t like it, ban it. What good is that going to do to anybody? Also there are Muslims living in other parts of the world too but I don’t hear facebook or youtube being banned there. You can see the outrage in your own country against the ban. Pakistani politics is beyond my comprehension but as I said earlier it is only giving a wrong idea about your country. As you know, these politicians have accommodations abroad where they & their children can freely access these sites while the natives are left with the ban. Is that fair? Recommend

First the ‘criticizing public figures on sms/email is a criminal offence’ tactic was used and now this. This govt is trying the hardest to take us into the stone ages so that their acts can be covered and peoples eyes and ears can be shut. A stupid decision which will not reap any rewards. Instead of going forward and developing faster to catch up with the western world, we are doing eveything possible to go backwards.Recommend

May be “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” factor affected due to ban on different sites including facebook and YOUTUBE but WHOSE freedom of speech.I think people who are against these sites using the right of freedom , which should also be respected in a same way as rest of the world do for so called “holocaust”. I fail to understand why on regular basis we have the same issue from western world, what they are looking for?are they waiting, till what time we will protest against these kinds of activities or they are checking weather muslim world is sleeping or not?If we look at the scenario initially whole muslim world against Sweden and Denmark and ban the their products in their countries now its through internet and what is the strength of protest against facebook.
Apart from the political or financial reason, a simple fact that its part of muslim believe and required for the completion of IMAAN that love of Allah and His Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W)should be on top of evey kind of love, so whatever rest of the world says or our dear so called enlightened friends talk about, fact remains the same. People who are arguing that religion or Prophet (S.A.W) never stops from learning should consider these kinds of caricature activities for themselves or for their families, i believe it will help them for the clear understanding.
Mr. Carl in their comments ask some simple questions, Why its keep coming on islam and why we always have to defend? Instead of apologizing behaviour from west we have to answer that why they dont have a right to humiliate islam or us, isn’t absurd and we keep justifying that its not us its just some fanatics or extremist or mullah factor who are protesting against their freedom for humiliation. Why can’t we have grab a cet out of this chance to get out from this humiliation cycle.May be IGNORANCE is a bliss but not ALWAYS.Recommend

Freedom of right does not mean to say any thing about our religion and Prophet(PBUH). There must be limits. We are not ready to tolerate humiliation whatsoever. Ban on FB and UT is right decision. Since they they have started financial loss due the ban, now the owner of these Mischievous and extremely Evil webs are crying.Recommend

Do one thing guys put a picture of osma bin laden with Obama, Queen Elizabeth, Sarkozi, Angela Merkel and other presidents and prime ministers of Christian countries and watch the reaction you will be completely amazed.try it… and please remember one thing its not about so called freedom of speech its about how non Muslims are always trying to humiliate Muslims.FREEDOM OF SPEECH MUST BE WITH SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Some people say that its mullahas and pakistani government…no its not…I lives in london and I know how Islam is a target by these people.

Say a word against Queen in front of Buckingham Palace and tell me what happens. try it before saying anythingRecommend

We Pakistanis at one side want FB ban and on the other side look for proxy sites to access it. Interesting people we are!!!Recommend

@Mubasher

“Do one thing guys put a picture of osma bin laden with Obama, Queen Elizabeth, Sarkozi, Angela Merkel and other presidents and prime ministers of Christian countries and watch the reaction you will be completely amazed.”

I seriously there would be any reaction. People have portrayed Bush and Obama as Hitler before and no one said anything.Recommend

Very interesting comments from both side, those who need facebook to disclose govt corruption, y can’t we do it on other forum. Take boycott issue this way, we did try our best on facebook to encounter THAT page, even after having millions of complains, facebook didn’t shut that page which was even against its own t&c for not promoting violence n racism but they let the event go under their nose, after 20th may page went off itself. I’ve closed my account myself as I can LIVE without facebook. Please wake up and don’t make urself depended of worldly things, Umaah need to unite n stop being hypocrite. Purpose of muslims life is to live as Allah want not as what we desire, as we don’t know what’s good for us. Guidance is prophets wayRecommend

the facebook administration must think, whether their site is for social networking or hurting the muslims. You can not allow anyone to hurt almost a billion of muslims at the name of “freedom of expression”. Recommend

Above all why they Band me on FB when i tried to create “Genius of Hitler”. So much for the “Freedom of speech”. I will be back with ” H | T L E R ” on FBRecommend

Its good in some way that western internet media is humiliating our religion, this helps us get our identity back (by reacting to such a situation). Recommend