-------- Original Message -------- Subject: BBC E-mail: Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:53:13 +0000 From: J . D . Abolins <jabolins@private> To: declan@private J.D. Abolins saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it. ** Message ** FYI. The Pakistani telecom block of blogs is also wide. For example. all Blogspt blogs were blocked because one of the targetted blogs is hosted there. ** Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons ** Pakistan telecom authorities block several websites inviting people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4771846.stm > --- Pakistan telecom authorities have blocked several websites inviting people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it has emerged. Instructions were issued to internet service providers across Pakistan on 27 February to block about a dozen websites of various origins. The ban comes amid protests in several Muslim countries against the cartoons, first published in Denmark last year. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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