Ban on porn websites

KARACHI: I was somewhat disappointed to read Mr Yawar Hilaly’s letter in your newspaper of November 24, which was in response to an earlier letter of mine on the subject of banning pornographic websites. While criticising my comment on the importance of preserving the morality of Pakistan’s middle class, Mr Hilaly seems to have missed the crux of my argument.

Pornography is the dark side of the internet and 85 per cent of all traffic on the worldwide web is related to porn websites. It is the responsibility of every government to ensure that its citizens and their families are protected from this filth. Countries like Singapore and the UAE have specialised filtering systems that refuse access to adult websites and this is done without compromising browsing or downloading speed. We need to follow these examples rather than blindly following the West.

Aamir Allawala

Published in The Express Tribune, November 26^th, 2011.