Internet Censorship: PTA's new love?

September 17 2012
The day it all started. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) imposed a ban on the most popular video sharing site Youtube on the grounds that it had a blasphemous film published that they refused to remove. I was never in favor of banning the site just because it refused to remove it but the people in our country just want to get to the extreme.
The ban was a result of widespread violence and rioting in the country so I don't completely blame PTA for banning it at that time.

But now, it has been 2 years and all the educated intellectuals have been launching a lot of campaigns to convince the government to un-ban Youtube as it had become a great hassle for those who relied on it not for  dramas or entertainment but for education and reference.

Before I proceed on other band which I am very strongly against, I would like to enlighten you with some very good campaigns run to pressurize the PTA but 'unkay kaan main jun na reengi'.

The campaign was called #kholobc by Pakistan for All.

Also, the campaign contained a song by Ali Gul Pir, which too was called #kholoBc.

In would have lived with the ban (NOT) but the fact that the censorship started increasing could not be left unnoticed. Some months back, they had also blocked access to IMDb. Thank God they granted us our right after many Pakistanis resisted and retaliated on the Social media.

Chalo isko bhi bhula do. Is say bura ye hai ke they have censored certain words and whenever they are written on the search bar, you couldn't proceed. I remember when few months back I searched "Role of media in promoting sexuality" and what I got in return was a red sing saying "This is for your saftey". I could not search because it had sexuality in it.

And then comes the current campaign of banning Facebook pages. The PTA banned the Facebook page of rock band LAAL. Later they banned the very famous page 'Taliban are Zaliman' which focused on enlightening people against  the Taliban and promoted living with harmony. Pages like The Traitors of Pakistan, All Pakistan Kaafir Alliance, The Kaafirs of Pakistan, Anonymous sons of Pakistan etc are also threatened because they too are doing the same work. They tell people how important human life is, how important rights of minorities are. Speak for rights of Ahmedis. Respected the Pakistan Army. Talked against Talibans. Spoke against the corruption.  I guess the government has other sentiments and doesn't want to give all these rights to people. This is absurd and I stand AGAINST Internet Censorship in Pakistan. You should too!

I hope everyone grows mature enough to realize how important it is to live in peace, harmony and liberty. Thank You! :)