pakistan blocks facebook

[DrFilth]

do you think some nutter has started this everyone draw muhammad day just to cause trouble ?

normal link
http://www.telegraph....mmed-cartoon-row.html

left link
http://news.bbc.co.uk...outh_asia/8691406.stm

very left link
http://www.guardian.c...tan-muhammad-drawings

[DrFilth]

youtube as well

http://www.technology...e-blasphemous-content

[DrFilth]

working class link

http://www.morningsta...ntent/view/full/90570

[naomi24]

Possibly - but on the other hand why should Pakistan expect the rest of the world to regard drawings of Mohammed as blasphemous, when it doesn't? Christians objected to Jerry Springer the Opera, but that didn't stop it being staged.

[DrFilth]

naomi after all the trouble with the cartoons in denmark (or some place over that way )
i think it is a bit iffy to have that kind of thing on a internet site

[Snafu03]

I dont know about 'causing trouble' but its certainly clear that Islam needs taking down a peg or two. Pakistans reactions demonstrates is exactly true to type. There is simply no place for medievil style religious ideologies in todays world - regardless of which religion.

[DrFilth]

after all the trouble with the cartoons do you not think facebook should have removed the thread straight away

[naomi24]

But on principle, why should anyone bow to the irrational demands of any religion? Perhaps it's time the world stopped pussyfooting and said outright 'you believe as you will, but don't expect us to believe it too' - which is exactly what happened in the case of Jerry Springer the Opera.

[naomi24]

//after all the trouble with the cartoons do you not think facebook should have removed the thread straight away //

No. I think it's time the world started saying 'no'.

[DrFilth]

things take time to change

[naomi24]

True, but if we never start, things will never change.

[DrFilth]

don't forget they are brainwashed at an early age, as they get older and more of them see the freedom in the west things will change.

[naomi24]

Yes, I know they're brainwashed from an early age - and I think some of the young people will change their ideas eventually. However, by continually conceding to their demands we aren't doing ourselves any favours. Like it or not, they have to accept that everyone doesn't think as they do. .

[DrFilth]

good point

[rov1200]

No wonder we have so much trouble in the world. They have no sense of humour!!!

[ChuckFickens]

oh well, that will be a shed load of VPNs being setup out off Pakistan then (just like there is out off China to get round their internet blocks)

it's not going to effect anyone that really wants to use it.

[sp1814]

Pakistan have blocked Facebook in Pakistan.

Pakistan has not blocked Facebook anywhere else.

Depictions of the prophet Mohammed (the spelling keeps changing), is blasphemous in Pakistan, so it makes perfect sense for the site to be banned in that country.

By the way - if I Facebook bans threads all the time. For instance, there was a briliantly libellous thread about a certain premiership footballer and a rent boy about a year ago. I happen to know the story is 100% true, but it got taken down within a couple of days going up.

Free speech being trampled?

Perhaps, perhaps not.

Who knows.

[jackthehat]

C'mon sp................spill !!! :o)

[China Doll]

I'm with Jack, you have to spill that one Splat... I'm still gobsmacked over the last scandal you revealed so you can't just leave us hanging!