Dear All (who liked URL filtering),
If this news is correct and MoIT (and ISPs) are NOT doing this behind the scene, then thanks.. It was good while it lasted. Thanks for memories. I do want to applaud both sides for resorting to dark sarcasm to convey the point. I guess we did not have to bring tanks to the street.
"The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) has apparently decided to shelve its plans to install a massive URL blocking system.
The MoIT, through its research arm, the National Information & Communication Technology Research and Development Fund had thorough a public advertisement on February 23, 2012, sought bids for a system that "should be able to handle a block list of up to 50 million URLs with a processing delay of not more than 1 millisecond."
On Monday, Member National Assembly Bushra Gohar confirmed to The Express Tribune that the MoIT had decided to reverse its decision. "Secretary IT Farooq Ahmed Awan said to me that the URL project has been withdrawn due to the concern shown by various stakeholders," the legislator from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa said."
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Asif Mufti <anmufti@yahoo.com> wrote:
Mr. Shuja,Your statement 3. is wrong.3. The whole of the developed world has regulation to block such sites for under 18, except Pakistan.The sites are not "blocked" but it gives a warning that this site is not allowed under the age of 18 - weather it is a movie or a website. Kids can watch movies PG/PG13 and R only when accompanying adults etc.The theatre will not issue a ticket but Website ...well if parents don't have blocking software ... kids can enter.AM
From: Muhammad Shuja <mshujaweb@gmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] RE: National URL Filtering and Blocking System
Very well said Abu Bakar. Makes much sense.
I'll make two points (from my point of view):
1. If we are technologically incompitent to enforce a regulation, that's no excuse. It's similar to interest (riba) system, giving excuse that we don't have any solution to it, that's why we're using it or the WORLD works on interest system, so I don't have any choice. -- doesn't spare us from committing sin (ofcourse if you're muslim).
2. Living in Pakistan (Islamic republic) should give some advantage to the parents, raising their children without the need to keep a check for such sites, as compared to living in a country/society where it's comparatively open and not as such a big deal (considered sin).
3. The whole of the developed world has regulation to block such sites for under 18, except Pakistan.2012/3/12 abu bakar <abbubakers@hotmail.com>
Dear All (Who oppose URL filtering),
Is there any movement in any part of the world which is not checked, filtered, monitored, regulated or controlled? Whether it is the movement of people across the borders; movement of words in the form of publishing of books, journals, magazines; your speeches, your actions your relations …. Everything is monitored at some stage. Those who are impressed with the West, when you go out of your home and until you come back you are converted into digital images and recorded thousands of times; whether taking a bus or an underground in the morning, having a cup of coffee at the bakery, or shopping a can of pepsi. You are not allowed `free' movement! How many of you living abroad have raised voice against it or called it against your personal freedom or free movement, or violation of `human rights'? Try asking these governments to remove these millions of CCTVs and leave these things to parents. Is there any action in any part of the world which is not subject to some law or regulations? Can you please tell us what is so sacred, holly and divine about the Internet that you don't want it to be monitored, filtered, checked or restricted; and you don't want it to be subjected to any law or regulation?
Those who think they can do anything inside their homes: can they please tell us under which religion (or moral system) or government they are allowed to do any wrong or sin or crime even in their own homes?
To those who maintain that self-restraint and parental guidance is the complete solution of the problem, I congratulate them on presenting a new theory in the field of crime and punishment (moral crimes, legal crimes, war crimes, cyber crimes …). I hope the world will listen to their novel and ingenious ideas and abolish the systems of policing and jurisprudence, and leave everything to mothers and fathers; and perhaps to grand-mothers and grand-fathers also!
(Note: I do not at all agree with Yasir but I love his style! As a side note, he has expressed his displeasure with three societies. I would like to ask him if he can name three societies he thinks are better than these. )
Regards,
Abu Bakar
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