Twitter alert: 'Tweetshedding' in Pakistan

if important ministries such as IT ministry are given to ignorant and corrupt people like Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, things like these are bound to happen … this ministry was once run by Ata ur Rehman and now is being run by Raja Ashraf … this comparison alone is enough to understand and imagine the depths of ignorance and darkness we have fallen into and the height of plight of this nation …

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they have blocked it because of the increasing mahajir province support and people were abusing the PPP ministers on twitter. There is no blasphemous content on twitter, I am using it right now. Just using religion once again for their personal gains, as always. in case you are wondering, im not with any of the political parties.

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perhaps this ban will be lifted after the NATO conference and Mr. Sadr Sahab returns home.

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Still stuck in the dark ages are we? And we refuse to come out of it. Welcome to Denialistan.

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@Big Rizvi
Forcing twitter to remove that kind of tweets is called DARK AGE in your dictionary then we are happy to be in dark age
Remember why facebook agreed to remove those pages this time,because they know that when Pakistan IT ministry says that they will ban website, they are actually serious about it.
And after such kind of ban twitter will also learn the lesson
You people never appreciate a good step by our government
And we should be proud that this time its PAKISTAN who forced facebook to remove pages not any other Muslim country

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@Raheel Arif: Unfortunately, Raheel, the pages are on Facebook, and can be accessed if you’re outside Pakistan (or if you use a proxy). The pages and events have NOT been removed from Facebook. You can confirm this yourself by performing a Google search; the events are public.

Pakistan’s supposed pressure on Facebook has only had the effect of hiding the content from Pakistani users, not forcing Facebook to remove anything. Do you feel better off now, now that you know that people are talking about our Prophet (PBUH) behind our backs AND thanks to our government, we can’t even visit the pages to report the posts?

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@Faried Nawaz
I will search about this, according to my info facebook was going to remove completely those pages
And only this thing make sense, if PTA want to hide content in Pakistan they can do it by themselves as the did for websites having adult content and they don’t need to contact facebook for this

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@great there is difference b/w criticism and mocking……

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@Raheel Arif: you wrote “and beleive me Jews(twitter owners) have some intelligence they know that if they will not remove that content they are in loss due to the stand taken by Pakistan and they will remove that content due to this big step of Pak government and ban will be lifted

Do you know who owns how much of Twitter? Can you name the Jews, and their percentage of Twitter’s ownership? No — but by stating what you did, you show that you’re not motivated by facts.

Secondly, Twitter loses next to no users if Pakistan blocks them. India, which has a much larger population online, accounts for barely 2% of Twitter’s userbase, and is the 20th in the top 20 list of Twitter users.

“So whats the big deal if you can live without twitter for few days for love of your religion“

It has nothing to do with my religion. Like I pointed out with the Facebook case, blocking the site or coming to an “agreement” with them to hide some content from Pakistani users doesn’t do a thing to stop blasphemy. It has more to do with pacifying people like you.

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Pakistan is just falling into the trend in most Islamic Countries where Freedom of Expression is non-existent. Why should be surprising? Its not the first time Pakistan has followed the Islamic path, is it?

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Well, its quite a nepotism. ET always publish their friends tweets :( Me sad

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