Pakistan court bans Facebook over Mohammad cartoon page

Islamabad : Pakistan | May 19, 2010 at 1:39 AM PDT

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A Pakistani court ordered authorities to block the Facebook website in the country over a page encouraging users to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad on the site. Thousands of members of the social networking site have launched an online campaign demanding a boycott of Facebook over the offending... FULL ARTICLE AT NOW Lebanon

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