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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
While social networking sites have increasingly become a rich source of information for everyone, they also have a flipside. News spreads like wild fire on them, making it easily accessible to every person who holds an account on the website.
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
We've written before critically about Twitter , including posts about how the micro-blogging site's was slow in removing a "Kill Zimmerman" account that encouraged violence -- in violation of Twitter's terms of service agreement by the way -- against...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Pakistan has restored access to Twitter after blocking the Web site for posting links to images of the prophet Muhammad, officials said. The plug was pulled on the social networking site Sunday morning because of material deemed offensive to Muslims,...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
Pakistan banned access to Twitter on Sunday because of "blasphemous" material, a Pakistani official said, but normal service was resumed after 12 hours. The government did not specify which users or messages had prompted the ban on the microblogging...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Pakistan restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over blasphemous posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. The website was blocked Sunday by the telecoms authority on the orders of the IT...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter yesterday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials. The tweets were promoting a competition on Facebook to...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
A lot can happen in the space of twelve months, just ask Lung...Suggested Topics Pakistani authorities lifted a ban on Twitter last night after earlier blocking it for hours. The block came after Twitter refused to remove material considered...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
20 May 2012 Pakistan's government today blocked the popular social networking website Twitter after material considered offensive to Islam was posted on the site. Government officials said Twitter refused to block messages referring to the Prophet...
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Gawker
| 1 year ago
Pakistan Blocks Access to Twitter, Then Thinks Better of It Pakistan blocked and then restored access to Twitter today, following the promotion of a "blasphemous and inflammatory" Facebook contest to draw the Muslim prophet Mohammed. The ban occurred...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Associated Press 2012-05-21 02:21 AM Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Pakistan's telecommunications regulators shut down Twitter for about eight hours Sunday because the social networking site would not remove content the government found objectionable to Muslims, but the nation's prime minister stepped in to reverse...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Twitter users in Pakistan found the site was blocked briefly amid government fears that blasphemous content was being circulated online. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Pakistan 's rambunctious Twitter users have been briefly silenced after the...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
Pakistan The Pakistani government blocked access to the social networking service Twitter on Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting a blasphemous cartoon contest taking place on Facebook, officials said. A government...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Pakistan has blocked Twitter 'indefinitely' over what it terms blasphemous material related to an ongoing competition to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. After extensive discussions with Twitter asking the microblogging service to self-...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
There was blasphemous material on Twitter," said Mohammad Younis Khan, spokesman for Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). "Both Facebook and Twitter were involved...Facebook has agreed to remove the stuff but Twitter is not responding to us."...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Twitter today over a competition to post caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on the social networking site. "The website has been banned by Ministry of Information Technology and the decision was conveyed to us. There was blasphemous material on...
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Time of India
| 1 year ago
Pakistan on Sunday blocked access to Twitter in response to "blasphemous" material posted by users on the microblogging and social networking website, a senior government official said. "This has been done under the directions of the Ministry of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
52 Pakistani media said there was no indication as to how long the site would be down [AP] Pakistan has blocked the micro-blogging website Twitter because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.
The material was promoting a competition...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
There was no official word on the development but users from different parts of Pakistan, especially Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi, reported that they were unable to access the site on their computers and mobile phones. The...
