KARACHI: This is with reference to your report of November 17 titled “PTA approved: Over 1,000 porn sites blocked in Pakistan”. Surely the government and its telecom regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, have better things to do than to block porn websites. Don’t we have other pressing issues to deal with? Also, will they blocks the hundreds of millions of websites that are found all over the internet? Will that not slow down the speed of browsing because the filters will slow down speeds? How is that going to help anyone? Why is this country and its government so prone to banning things? Haven’t we heard of programmes like Netsurf and Net Nanny?
And, at the risk of being labelled a pervert, may I ask what is the harm if an adult watches porn in the safety of his own home? How does that hurt anyone?
A reader
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2011.
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i totally agree with mr. kashif shahzad banning the websites is not going to solve anything.
Well its obvious, people will now use free proxy servers (thousands of available via google) to enter the pornographic websites that are banned by PTA. Then whats difference does it make if govt block or allow them? As a matter of fact as Kashif Shahzad said, "it will increase the human trafficking to meet the demands of addicted people and will create more chaos and hence more perverts" But why the hell PTA doesn't understand it, There are hundreds of ways people will find ways to access porn online and offline. Maybe they should create an Anti-Porn-Committee that can break into people homes and search their pc for pornographic material if they really wanna stop porn, Blocking the sites alone wont do that job.
Well, What a wonderful letter the express tribune has published.
I always believed Media has main responsibility as well as power to change the world and now by publishing this it has clearly highlighted that, Media Supports porn and thats why they have let this article to be published.
To all the perverts out there, Pakistan is a Muslim State and being a Muslim by practice is the only Muslim instead of those muslims, that are just having the title on due to their inheritance. Pornography should be banned completely because it not only violates our islamic values and teachings but it also contradicts with our social and moral values.
Watching Sex and such websites, develops such mental harmones, which once addicted to, It is very difficult for anyone to get rid of. Human looses its character, its thinking capabilities and physical health by indulging into watching pornography.
After seeing the above comments, I really feel ashamed of our nation's thinking, and if we dont stop it now, the day when our children will watch porn in front of us and do sexual activities recklessly is not away. So please think and then act. I appreciate governments action for doing this finally.
They can take away my freedom but if they take away my porn, somebody's gonna get hurt reaaaal bad!
I second the contents of the letter
i appreciate PTA decision.