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The media in Pakistan also practise self-censorship across all the platforms, largely out of fear of reprisals against their employees, media group owners or broadcasting stations. Political parties limit media freedoms and it is unwise to dig too deeply into the affairs of some political parties and their luminaries. Beyond the YouTube ban, the Pakistan government limits freedom on the internet when it so chooses, and has been known to micromanage down to the point of blocking individual Facebook posts — which says a lot for the levels of surveillance in play. Perhaps, the best that can be said for Pakistan is that it is not actually at the bottom of the list, but that is small comfort. Freedom in the Pakistani media is hard won, and there is much still to fight for.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 18th, 2015.
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