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Facebook ban gets Twitterati joking

May 19, 2010

KARACHI: As soon as news of the Lahore High Court verdict ordering a ban on the social netwroking website Facebook filtered in, users of the micro-blogging website Twitter started making witty 140-character jokes about the ban.

Here’s a selection of some of the funniest.

From @acorn: What's the difference between Facebook and Jamaat-ud-Dawa? Ans: Facebook is banned in Pakistan

From @acorn: Dear Facebook: if the Pakistani govt bans you, you only have to resurface under a new name.

From @rshakoor: LHC bans Facebook and musharraf loses his entire constituency

From @mosharrafzaidi: How is Leon Panetta going tp update his #FB status?

From @fakebalthakre: Pakisthanis can't use FB until May 31.Excellent opportunity for Hindusthan to block water to all Pak farms on Farmville.

Add your own favourites as comments below.

COMMENTS (47)

Jawad Farooq | 14 years ago | Reply Facebook ban left, but its our Religion, Morly, Ethically duty bcot the face book join http://facevisa.com its similar to facebook

mffhere | 14 years ago | Reply Omar.. freedom of speech is not freedom of insult.. and this is all crap by the facebook team of using the term "freedom of speech" in case of acts against Islam..its simply double standards..read the below article for your clarification ! (Reuters) - Facebook said on Friday it had removed several pages from its site used by Italian neo-Nazis to incite violence after European politicians accused the Internet social networking site of allowing a platform to racists. Follow the below link for details.. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4AD3KZ20081114

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Omar | 14 years ago | Reply Just because a bunch of people are saying something against OUR religion, we get furious. None of you realize that Muslims are calling them infidels and attacking their homes. What do you expect? Love and Kisses? People will always find a way to express their feelings, The govt. of Pakistan can't block every page and every website on the internet and if they do, people will always find a way around it. So blocking facebook, youtube and 450 other websites will just NOT help their cause except create more negative opinion about them (not to say there isn't already) and that's about it. Anyways, Freedom of Speech will always be there so there's no real need to huff and puff about its various applications.

Dr Zeeshan | 14 years ago | Reply Draw Muhammad.... is it fiar??? (plz b Honest) This is created by so called freedom of speech which refers continuously hurting a specific faith. Doesn’t this freedom complete without hurting people of 56 countries? Pakistan, a Muslim country, has banned Facebook because of a user-based group on the site encouraging members to draw pictures of Islam's prophet, Mohammad. Any depiction of Mohammad is strictly forbidden in the Muslim faith. What is freedom of speech or media????????? What if I publish the nude cartoon of your mother or sister &post it on Facebook & say I am free????? As I am free I can do it? But how will u feel???? Doesn’t it hurt u?? Similarly hurting the feelings of any group, religion, country, society is In Humane & shameful. We Muslims respect each & every religion & we dn,t do such shameful activities & we wish that other should also understand & respect our feelings. Last month, makers of the controversial cartoon South Park were threatened for putting the prophet in the show's skits. Comedy Central censored the episodes as a result. That censorship, however, led one Facebook user to jokingly speak out -- eventually forming the "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day!" group. So far, more than 100,000 have joined the group and some 10,000 drawings have been posted. More recently, Swedish artist Lars Vilks published a picture of the Muslim prophet as a dog Many people say,,, why facebook? why not just that page? Answer is tat………….. well as an active facebooker myself, I know how they deleted two of my groups on Islam. disabled my friends’ profiles without any reason whatsoever. and all the pages that we’ve been reporting, offensive dirty pages on our Islam, are still there. wake up. Facebook, is not friendly. they have your pictures they know your number they know your relatives they know your friends & Best friends they know your interests they, have everything they want to know about you. they watch you. and you’re paying them to spy on you.

Tabreize Khan | 14 years ago | Reply @Summaiya.z & Rubiax: The examples you are giving are from the time when Islam was just establishing its roots and Muhammad PBUH had to use the option of negotiations mostly. But remember, when it came to the one-ness and respect of Allah, (whose respect was obligatory on Mohammad PBUH), he made no compromise!! To be heard by ALL, he used to climb a nearby peak and preach to ALL against polytheism (Shirk); and used to get almost beaten to death for it! Similarly, isnt the respect of Mohammad PBUH obligatory on us?? And guys, compared to him, what r we doing? NOTHING!! What is one little temporary ban of one website of one internet when weighed against the respect of a man to whom we owe SO MUCH?!! All our actions are being watched by Allah, and you never know, favouring the ban willingly (or at least not complaining about it) might count for a lot in His eyes! At least I 'd love to be so fortunate! What you have put forward are mere theories i'm afraid! With the ban, at least they know that unacceptable things wont be accepted. BTW we'd all love to hear from you some CONCRETE steps (1,2,3..) that you would have taken to tackle the issue! The starter of the page (some Miss Sally from Seatle, USA), has already announced her disassociation from the event!! She probably realized that the idea of deliberately hurting a Billion+ Muslims (just because protests from some Muslims in USA had resulted in stopping a blasphemous episode of Comedy Central's Southpark from being aired) is sheer nonsense!! Do you think Facebook owner is so naive? Look at what he says now.. that Facebook would disallow the objectionable URL in Pakistan but IT WILL NOT BE REMOVED FROM FACEBOOK!! So, it is the conscious decision of Facebook CEO: he would NOT take the page off, no matter how much and how many are hurt by it! FINE then, we understand your mental level Mr CEO, being such an accomplished person and having plenty of brains. BTW what do u expect from a common man you hurt so much!? Even the ban crosses your line? P.S. The one-liners here? are certainly not amusing. I'm sure many of us can come up with much better/funnier humour; BUT, we r Muslims! We respect Jesus, and Moses, and Raam, and Buddha. Someone counts that as our weakness? be it!!

Muhammad Aayan | 14 years ago | Reply Pakisthanis can’t use FB until May 31.Excellent opportunity for Hindusthan to block water to all Pak farms on Farmville. Its the most funniest joke...

RW | 14 years ago | Reply We should have been the bigger person here showing restraint, calm, peace and anti-violent protests...we should have started and maintained a LOVE MUHAMMED (PBUH) DAY instead...now we cant even have that... what is wrong with us?

Saad Duraiz | 14 years ago | Reply HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA I think the Musharraf one is awesome!

juni | 14 years ago | Reply thanks for banning facebook there are other sites like orkut twitter etc we can use that we are still in global village naveed may GOD bless u with eman naveed you have internet access you can live in global village still... thanks to lahore high court naveed when there was not facebook 5 years before at that time you were living in global village

Rubiax | 14 years ago | Reply @summaiya z..i totaly agree wd yu cox The one thing I am absolutely positive of, is that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) would not have done what we are doing now: making an international public spectacle of ourselves. Most likely he would have just walked away and ignored (as he did those who threw garbage on him), he might have negotiated with Facebook on the basis of their own stated rules (the Hudabia model), he might have reasoned with the detractors. Nearly certainly Muhammad (PBUH) would have handled it with grace and with composure. Most importantly, the Prophet (PBUH) would have kept focusing on his own actions and proving his point with his own deeds rather than with slogans and banners. becox islam givex everyone the liberty and freedom of expression..

Noveed | 14 years ago | Reply Now the preparation of exams will be better...

AK | 14 years ago | Reply Facebook should seek pardon from President Zardari

Karim Khan | 14 years ago | Reply How come they did it? After all, you need a 2-3rd majority in the Parliment to do anything in this country.

verbal | 14 years ago | Reply banning facebook isnt going to achieve any thing, infact its a useless futile effort, especially when everything unislamic take porn for example is still available..infact thats all its good for now that they are planing on extending the ban to other websites. google islam and you will come across thousands of anti islam hate websites...even the original website with the blasphemous caricatures is up for viewing..wasnt that the content which should of been baned?mind you face book did not initiate the movement...stop being so thickheaded and look deeper...banning one or two websites completely is not an answer...what is needed is a proper internet content filtering. i know most of you will call me an acomplice to evil but its the truth..we aim at the superficial and do not dig deep.

anjan gumnam | 14 years ago | Reply bijli ki bachat...

Summaiya.Z | 14 years ago | Reply I think you all are wrong! We are approaching this situation in the wrong way. We are supposed to approach it with clamness and patience just like how the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) did. Allah has a plan for everyone and he knows best and he certainly knows the path of everyone therefore he will decide how to punish those who do bad and reward those who do good. Islam is about peace and spreading the word of Allah. People have different views about everything and we cant change them. It is best to have faith in Allah at times like this and not get all fired up.

danishwar | 14 years ago | Reply it's good in one way; facebook is a tremnedous waste of time. Most young men and women who are addicted to facebook should think again. Life may be better without the facebook! After all, there was life before facebook. There would be life after it fades away. So what's the big deal? Think about the opportunity cost of facebook.

Naf | 14 years ago | Reply A Wonderful Decision by Pakistani Courts. May ALLAH (S.W.T) bless the ones who have made this decision, ones who have implemented it, ones who have initiated this and ones who are appreciating this as it is not the matter what it will do to the FB management, it is indeed the duty of us to atleast do what we can. Rest May ALLAH (S.W.T) give us Hidayah and strength to get the gustaakh

Dee | 14 years ago | Reply hahaha best one is @fakebalthakre: Pakisthanis can’t use FB until May 31.Excellent opportunity for Hindusthan to block water to all Pak farms on Farmville. Here's mine facebook was blocked one day earlier then the whole country in Peshawar and we all know why :P

Naveed | 14 years ago | Reply By banning FB we are sending a message to the entire world that "We don't want to be part of the global village"

Ali Iftikhar | 14 years ago | Reply Miss Saba Imtiaz … do u find “@acorn’s” Statement ” What’s the difference between Facebook and Jamaat-ud-Dawa? Ans: Facebook is banned in Pakistan” FUNNIEST ??? kindly visit his blog ..n see his other blogs …. where Miss Saba Imtiaz finds it witty n funny, Mr Acorn (an Indian) was extremely sarcastic and serious !!!!

Ali Haider | 14 years ago | Reply Best one!!! From @rshakoor: LHC bans Facebook and musharraf loses his entire constituency

Ali Asad | 14 years ago | Reply it's accessible from thousands of proxy sites, if they block one, we find another.

Advocate Yasir Rajper | 14 years ago | Reply Sr Said: "Even though Internet Service Providers have been told to block facebook.com but still its working and people can access it through different sites e.g. Touch.facebook.com, m.facebook.com or adding a letter after http// . There are certainly many loopholes in this ban and i request the implementers of this ban to quickly block ‘any ‘ access to the site." INCORRECT ..... It is not acessable by any way Alhumdulilah ... THE BESTEST THING DONE ... This is a good step we all must incourage this.. Musafir said: "Banning Facebook seriously,nice PR move Pakistan,doesn’t the LHC have more important matters to look into aka Rehman Malik." Sure brother the LHC has many other matters to deal with including Rehman Malik but I have a question for you, are these all other things more important matters then the honour and respect of our Beloved Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H)? Love and Respect Advocate Yasir Rajper

atif zaman | 14 years ago | Reply That's absolutiy rite ban on face book in every islamic country in the world.

Syed Khurram Anwar | 14 years ago | Reply I agree with Naveed. Once again, thanks to the lawyers and judiciary and shame on our government. our dear government! we are really ashamed of you.

NAVEED ALI SHER | 14 years ago | Reply I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I HEAR THAT PTA OFFICAIAL SAID IN LAHORE HIGH COURT THAT "WE WILL BE IN BIG LOSS IF WE BLOCK FACEBOOK" SHAME ON THAT OFFICIAL

proud to be muslim | 14 years ago | Reply @ fakebalthalkre! we r muslims n for us our Prophet is everything.you talked about Farmville huh.It will also be fine for us if india block the water of Pak in reallity.:/

Mudassar Ali Khan | 14 years ago | Reply UNITY at its height. Hope it's gonna make a difference too. FB should not only remove these provoking groups and pages but also take some permanent measures so that such shameful things can never happen again and doing so is definitely not against anyone's freedom of speech and expression. Someone above said so rite that its about time that FB should get matured.

Rishwan | 14 years ago | Reply i think fb should not be banned in but we as an individual should boycott fb and deactivate our fb accounts. right now fb is banned and when the ban will be lifted i will be the 1st one to deactivate my fb account....

faisal feroz | 14 years ago | Reply bravo! they've blocked the blackberry services too!!

Mohammed Sumair | 14 years ago | Reply Facebook blocked in Pakistan its not enough it should also be blocked in All entire muslim countries.

Mohammed Sumair | 14 years ago | Reply The depiction of any prophet is strictly prohibited in Islam as blasphemous and Muslims across the world staged angry protests over the publication of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in European newspapers in 2006.

Mohammed Sumair | 14 years ago | Reply Facebook Its Time to Become mature !!! un-educated admin u have

zubair | 14 years ago | Reply Cyber space has got porn, knowledge, religion, just like a book shop , its your choice what u want to see. Banning FB in Pakistan will not and cannot solve the larger issues being faced by Pakistan. As some body said earlier it will only add fuel to fire.

Umar | 14 years ago | Reply Mosharraf Zaidi's didn't deserve to be up there. The rest were funny.

Sr | 14 years ago | Reply The recent ban on the popular social networking site ' Facebook ' by the Lahore High Court has been unanimously supported by every Muslim in the country. Though some sections of the country and the international media may argue that its an attack on the freedom of speech in the country but as we are a Islamic Nation, this ban from the Government is a good step. Even though Internet Service Providers have been told to block facebook.com but still its working and people can access it through different sites e.g. Touch.facebook.com, m.facebook.com or adding a letter after http// . There are certainly many loopholes in this ban and i request the implementers of this ban to quickly block 'any ' access to the site.

Murtaza Ali Jafri | 14 years ago | Reply Dear Facebook; You have never been more popular. Dear Lahore HC, You should look up the term 'Proxy sites'.

Omar Qadir | 14 years ago | Reply Banning the facebook will just add fuel to fire.

Faiza javed | 14 years ago | Reply serious issues apart,, but i must appreciate the witty sense of humor

Moeen Tahir | 14 years ago | Reply Hey guys, it seems that facebook is finally blocked !!! just checked it though .. ! i m using DSL

Musafir | 14 years ago | Reply Banning Facebook seriously,nice PR move Pakistan,doesn't the LHC have more important matters to look into aka Rehman Malik.

Syed Kashif Ali | 14 years ago | Reply farhan If we dun have twitter, then how we can open facebook ?

Muhammad Arsalan | 14 years ago | Reply This unity shows that Muslims stand UNITED. No matter where in the world, but yet we are a cause of loss to facebook. Let us wait and see if they really remove those events, pages, profiles and groups till 31st May or we will continue to protest and use twitter in place of facebook. Muslims Unity Zindabad !

Syed Kashif Ali | 14 years ago | Reply I am expecting a protest in pukhtoonkhua that "We'll block this service only if Afghanistan govt. impose ban on it"

Farhan Danish | 14 years ago | Reply Facebook Still Working in Pakistan

ZK | 14 years ago | Reply LHC bans Facebook and musharraf loses his entire constituency... HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA So true!!

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