AoA,
This proposal smells very much like the vaccination drive conducted by the Pakistani doctor to track Osama BinLaden. The front story was very nice; a local Pakistani doctor is helping his poor countrymen live a better life. Here again a local face is being sought to basically do the dirty work of CIA/NSA etc.
The real problem, as I speculate, is that due to increase in local net traffic a lot of packets don't go out of Pakistan for NSA to capture and track. Furthermore a lot of content, not particularly friendly to our ruling elite and their overseas masters is being produced and consumed here. The type of content which can cause ordinary people to ask questions about the way they are being exploited by the ruling elites. So in order to relieve the work load of the overseas masters such system will be deployed here. And in order to soothe the nerves of some potential local nationalistic folks the project is being given a desi face. The fact of the matter is that NSA already has such boxes deployed in USA and they capture/scan every packet. That system will be put in place here with a local touch. The public will be told that this is being done to protect them and their children from harm and that they should be proud of the fact that it is designed & developed by our own people. And we all know how worried and concerned our ruling elite is about our welfare. This is my take on it, what do you think?
Regards & AH
Nadeem
From: Hafiz M. Imran <engimran_uet@hotmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 3:05 PM
Subject: RE: [pakgrid] Re: A very happy Censorship and Block to 50 million URLs - National URL Filtering and Blocking System
As'sala Mu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakutuh
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
From: nsaquib@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:34:07 +0000
Subject: [pakgrid] Re: A very happy Censorship and Block to 50 million URLs - National URL Filtering and Blocking System
Dears,
What wrong if our Govt. is taking some good step to block our young generation from bad activities. I thinks we should appreciate good effors made by Govt. Our teachers, parents as well as Govt. is responsible to teach and decide what is wrong and what is right. It is our badluck that we opened eyes in era when everywhere is curruption in Govt as well as outside but dears, beleive me this is not curruption. This will be great service if our Govt initiate this step as our young generation is now not following parents or teachers or elders and following bad activities due to just bad media... We all are supports of free +ve media but would you like to show porn websites to your youngers... Sure not..
So please support Govt in their +ve actions... Thanks!
I am in Saudia and here most of unwanted URLs are blocked but still people are accessing such stuff from other sources due to which now Saudi young generation is going far away from true teachings, so if Govt here will open all type of media for them, then think what will happen.. Hope you understand the situation.
Best Regards,
Hafiz Muhammad Imran
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To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
From: nsaquib@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:34:07 +0000
Subject: [pakgrid] Re: A very happy Censorship and Block to 50 million URLs - National URL Filtering and Blocking System
Pakistan is not the only one even some so called mature democracies are also looking for such a control. Example from last few months are Bill in USA and ACTA in Europe. May be the only difference is that in USA and Europe due to public pressure both of the proposals pulled back. My career was born in Internet and i believe in free internet as innovation platform. We don't need some one in the Govt. to tell us what is right to do and what is not right over net. It is job of our parents and teachers to teach us.
Hopefully some one from Media and freedom of speech can take this up to stop such a B.S.
/n
http://techtalk-ns.blogspot.com/
--- In pakgrid@yahoogroups.com, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@...> wrote:
>
> This may interest many of you to understand how FoE and an open
> Internet is being captured in Pakistan. Feel free to be censored and
> blocked soon.
>
> http://ictrdf.org.pk/RFP-%20URL%20Filtering%20%26%20Blocking.pdf
>
> This is what happens when corruption and only monetary interests drive
> business and industry. Imagine the companies that will be contributing
> to this process, will they be working in the interest or against the
> interest of the nation?
>
>
> --
> Regards.
> --------------------------
> Fouad
>
Hopefully some one from Media and freedom of speech can take this up to stop such a B.S.
/n
http://techtalk-ns.blogspot.com/
--- In pakgrid@yahoogroups.com, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@...> wrote:
>
> This may interest many of you to understand how FoE and an open
> Internet is being captured in Pakistan. Feel free to be censored and
> blocked soon.
>
> http://ictrdf.org.pk/RFP-%20URL%20Filtering%20%26%20Blocking.pdf
>
> This is what happens when corruption and only monetary interests drive
> business and industry. Imagine the companies that will be contributing
> to this process, will they be working in the interest or against the
> interest of the nation?
>
>
> --
> Regards.
> --------------------------
> Fouad
>
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