LHC lifts ban on Facebook

The court lifting the ban is one thing, the government lifting another. The ban had become something of an irrelevance anyway as there is plenty of evidence that people are finding proxy workarounds that enable them to view and post there – as they had from the beginning. As governments everywhere are finding, even in countries where internet access in heavily interdicted, limiting access short of cutting the entire country off from the net is extremely difficult. Netizens work together to find ways around. They did this time and they will again.Recommend

Gud BUT Bad…..
Facebook should banned forever
but now
We have to boycott Facebook…..
By Deleting our accounts……Replace our pics with boycott pics.Recommend

Thank you LHC :)

God forbid if such a thing should happen again the future we should find a better way of fighting these people back instead of shutting the web site and getting more unnecessary attention and then letting them have a free hand to do whatever they want.Recommend

on what grounds the ban has been lifted? who defended the case? This is seriously something to think over.Recommend

i appreciated the court decision on 19th May to block the access of Facebook and i appreciate the court decision to lift the ban.Recommend

All that tamasha for nothing. FB still blocked, when can we get back on??Recommend

Awesome. please no more ban on any internet site in future. Recommend

So, we loved the Prophet (PBUH) only till 31st may 2010? Good to know.Recommend

no more bans on facebook !!!!!! thanxx you allRecommend

The important thing is that… has FB learnt its lesson at policy level? It’s important that policies for acting on reports of offensive material are altered… and implementedRecommend

Finally!! But sadly the damage has been done and a precedent set… we will have to guard our few liberties even more carefully now. I think I’m going to hang on to my proxy software for a while…. :DRecommend

Its not working yet, the thing we did was so embarrassing, we embarrassed ourselves and our faiths, see our people are still on roads, still blocking roads, torching tires, and the whole episode of how we reacted brought a new wave of extremism and those attacks on Qadyanis can possibly be related to that new fresh wave of extremism. God bless us, cause mostly we dont know what we do, we are just mindless puppets moving on the move of their fingers and how they pull our strings. and by THEM may be some of us would know what i mean.Recommend

In my opinion the best way to protest against such competition was the Facebook itself. Muslims would have used Facebook as a platform to protest against such blasphemy rather than banning it.Recommend

mean they yet posting that material agains our be loved Hazart Muhammad S.A.W.W but our govt. just anounced that dont show in Pakistan???? mean they stil posting againt our Prophet?????
So we are still shameless(BEGHERAT) people by this opening order we realize we dont have power to protest.. muslims has no area? we dont have protest power?
This is not Love with ALLAH and His Last Prophet .. we just showing our useless attitute.. Govt. cant do any thing as well … This act shows this is not our Muslim’s Govt. They are just bludy poors & slave.. bludy rascals
BYCOT FACEBOOK FOREVER IF YOU REALLY LOVES HAZARAT MUHAMMAD S.A.W.W

ALLAH HUAKBAR!!!!Recommend

@ismail

yes they are still posting and you cannot do anything about it…israel and america are against holocaust-deniers but still there are millions of pages on holocaust denial on the internet….china is against taiwan freedom but there are millions of pages on taiwan freedom and dalai lama etc…and china cannot do anything about it…internet is something which is out of control of anybody…and this is not ghairat to block access to internet…does the blockade affected facebook in anyway? it is just like closing your eyes when you see anything criminal or shameful….i have not read or heard any islamic teaching which order the muslims to close their eyes when they see anything unwanted….i think there were millions of kaafirs living at the time of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) and He never ordered to destroy them or their places of worship or anything like this…in the famous Hudebia Pact, the kaafirs objected to the word “Messenger of ALLAH” and what the Prophet did?did he ordered the muslims that kaafirs have insulted me and you should burned tires and cars and KFCs and boycott facebook? NO! Our Holy Prophet (S.A.W) said ok if you people object to this I will write my name on the Pact is only Muhammad. This was the attitude of our Prophet (S.A.W) towards kaafirs..thats why He is considered the greatest Lawyer by Lincoln Inn and He is the first one in 100 most influential people of the all time…recognized even by non.muslims….but with our acts and deeds we are just bringing shame unto islam and ourselves muslims…we can kill 100 Ahamdis in their worship place but we ask USA to block Facebook? who is gonna beleive us or take us seriously? Before reacting we should ask ourselve that in any situation : WHAT WOULD MUHAMMAD (S.A.W)DO? this should be the guideline for our reaction..not some JTI or taliban or any other extremists calling for killing all kafirs…Recommend

I am not a lawyer so can any one tell me that can a high court of a province pass an order for the whole country. Secondly there is a Baluchistan High Court, a Sindh High Court then why we do not have a Punjab High Court?Recommend

HMM :))Recommend

People supporting the ban are idiots. Those supporting the ban, please dont come back to facebook. We wont miss you. Recommend

alright alright alright…………am so happpppyyyy FB IS BACK GOD AM SO HAPPPY THOSE ALLL WHO SUPPORTED THE BAN……..BACK OFF NOW N DONT USE FB AGAIN……I LOVE FB SO MUCHH N I MISSSED IT SOOOOOOOO MUCH MUAAAHRecommend

i also read here that a lot of people wanted “centralised/regulated internet”…WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? do you know the internet has to be decentralised to work as a democratic medium!
This also points to the mass hysteria/paranoia the Zia regime managed to instill in our minds…
People wake up…do you know how much in denial you are??? first of all your colonial baggage of being inferior then being a sinful/untrustworthy muslim/human being and hence copying the arabs and now the global inferiority complex…….!Recommend

i think it should be blockef for further periodRecommend

The court lifting the ban is one thing, the government lifting another. The ban had become something of an irrelevance anyway as there is plenty of evidence that people are finding proxy workarounds that enable them to view and post there – as they had from the beginning. As governments everywhere are finding, even in countries where internet access in heavily interdicted, limiting access short of cutting the entire country off from the net is extremely difficult. Netizens work together to find ways around. They did this time and they will again.Recommend

I can easily deactivate my account now.Recommend

I want to describe a generalized view of our public by quoting an example. “Once a school kid was asked to participate in annual debates, the topic was favor lassi or pespi. Every child in school was a pepsi lover, but when it came to voting. They voted for lassi, showing traditional support”

They do the same crap when voting for politicians. And now the same crap on views related to FB. Lolzz i dont understand, the supporters of millat FB how will u be able to forget FB when u have the same colors, same format etc U guyz R “Titto COPY CATS”. And look at the confidence with which they are talking here. Its amazing!

Next the people still crying for permanent bann, ” You guys got no right to JUDGE anyone. Remember Islam says the only judge of the world is Allah Almighty” So dont judge others.” Anger and frustration holds the max amount of energy, but if it is wasted in craps you will get nothing out of it. Wise people always store this energy and utilize it in the best possible way. Seems like people with your kinda ideas when can’t do anything start killing own Pakistani residents; like whatever happened in Lhr, and now threats to Churches in PAK. Thats awfully sad to see, you guys still dont have a strategic way of dealing with things. When i look at people like you, my heart sinks to see we are still in “DOR-E-JAHALAT”

No one here is anti-islamic, the one who use FB and also the ones who dont. So whats the point of fighting with one another? Are we talilbaans? Infact our approach should be “give yer damn” to crap. U people calim to be more islam lovers than us. So you should know its end of time. All judgement day predictions will come true one way or the other. So “Bhai kis kis ko block karo gay” If you limit your barriers to Pakistan by cutting of from the rest of the world in everyway. Even then it wont end.

You should understand that these games are far more bigger than your little brains. So boycotting will only help those who want to do all kinda rubbish against us. But Some sensible people here undetstand that FB itself is the right platform to not only answer them back. But also have a check on how far they can go on being racist.

Anyways for understanding these things you need a little global perspective. And that doesnt come within a week or so. If you stay like a frog of the well. You will only produce tadpoles. Specially on plarforms like “millat fb”.

I just want to end up by saying that I really appreciate all those who try to put an effort and making our country’s such kind of population realize that times have changed. Your old strategies are out dated now. So better understand the crap and deal with it accordingly.

I really want to thank; all those you understood the bann thing was getting Pakistan no where.

Allah Bless You All!Recommend

What the LHC did was very very right. Nobody, nobody is allowed to play with our sentiments. And these feelings of extreme love and affection for our Holy Prophet are the hallmark and an honor in my life and somebody goes and draws whatever he/she likes without taking in to consideration my feelings. If I can get killed for protecting this I shall feel that purpose of my life has been fulfilled then what can I do with creator of this content is of course not rocket science. Recommend

@ M Asad Ullah : lolzz @ replace our pics with boycott pics? Man dont u know the process of del an account. You should deactivate your account permanently. WHY THIS HYPOCRISY?

@ Tahir Mahmood: Get a life UNCLE :DRecommend

Just some food for thought:

A friend of mine in the US jokingly said he would post outrageous things on BBC News(in the comments section), YouTube, Flicker, etc. which would eventually show up on all the search engines and thereby lead to us Pakistani’s losing most of the internet.
(Is the LHC then going to ban most sites?)

What possessed our courts to block facebook when the KSA, the self-declared protector of Islam, continued to allow full access to facebook?

I don’t want to start a flame war here.. these are just somethings our backward courts need to consider before thinking they can control all things digital. It’s not like a magazine where they can black out pages anymore. Closing facebook is an inconvenience to us only. Facebook couldn’t give a rats a** if Pakistani’s were unable to use the net. Facebook adds about 1 million new accounts a day, and Pakistan has about 2 million net connections! You can be the judge of who paid the price here.Recommend

Sarah: Thanks for mentioning my name :), I just did what i felt was right and should be done..waise to I wonder agar koi Hatelist nikli to I will top that for sure :PRecommend

Haha. Facebook sure did learn its lesson. I am sure they’ll be celebrating all of today, at least.

And loving the alternatives flowing in, millatfb, facebuddy.pk etc. Great, my social networking experience will be pure now, as all I did on Facebook was visit blasphemous pages and be in awe of them – which I guess everyone in Pakistan was doing thus the blockage.

I’ll be calling my ISP soon, as Facebook still isn’t working and I can’t wait to de-activate my account and co-exist with my peaceful loving Muslim brothers on alternative platforms. Recommend

So after almost 10 days of imprisonment, FB became good boy ?Recommend

THIS DECISION OF HIGH COURT IS GOOD.KNOWING the strategies of your opponent is essential to face that. I think to ban the face book or shouting in the streets was not the solution. but on administrative level strong and firm action is necessary and more effective.We should deal this problem with patience as we have given the example for the patience and tolerance by our beloved Prophet(SAW). our attitude of protest also should be decent.there is limit of tolerance so people out of love of the prophet can not tolerate any such thing but disconecting the link is not the solution. I will suggest my friends to find better and more effective methods to condemn this type of activities.Recommend

@ Afficer Khan
did not know u “american-pakistani’ people lack the knowledge.puynishment for saying bad remarks about prophet is deathRecommend