Talk:Internet censorship in Pakistan

message: 1) This article should be specifically about all Internet Censorship in Pakistan, and not just the the ban on blogspot sites.
: Agreed. As you may have noticed, this site was just put up, and it was Blogspot banning that motivated it. However, the hope is that people will add further general censorship details as time goes by. Beetle B. 18:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a rollback because of this diff-Dakota ~  ° 21:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wikified and restructured it to be more in line with Manual of Style. I saw this notice after doing so, but as I have not touched the content (info & tone) I hope there is no conflict. AshishGtalk 16:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Older discussions

message: Would it not make sense to make a list of all the sites that are currently known to be blocked in Pakistan? Such a list has been started very recently at WikiPakistan. I would really be interested in figuring out which sites are being blocked and whether they are an ISP-level block or blocked through PIE or both. Hulleye 08:53, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listing of blocked sites 

message: This article does not have a title paragraph. Please refer to guidelines on writing an article. 172.201.134.2 01:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: Most of the early contributors on this page are citizens of Pakistan who are experts on the history of the Internet in their country. Their ID's are freely visible on the history page. I would suggest that their contributions to this knowledge is reference enough for this information. If you were to find actual references, it would likely be articles written by them or their associates or quoting their expertise.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.163.136 (talk) 00:42, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk on References 

message: Pakistan has now blocked YouTube.com over because of 'anti-islamic' movies being shown on there until further notice. Story on the link. 
http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=7623557
81.99.24.95 (talk) 21:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a reliable third-party source we can cite? -Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 21:48, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

text: Not yet. In fact, looks like HTTPS is no longer working from 39.55.195.25. It would appear that powers that be plugged that hole. Anasim (talk) 00:25, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube 

message: (I wrote this on a different article, but it seems relevant here so I am including it.)
I asked a journalist friend in Pakistan to confirm reports that Wikipedia is banned there - she reports quite firmly that it is not.  Our article repeats this apparent untruth based on a report in Fast Company which cites a Bloomberg story which doesn't mention Wikipedia, and this associated press story which says "The regulatory body said it has blocked more than 450 Internet links containing offensive material. It is unclear how many of the links were blocked in the last two days. Access to the online encyclopedia site Wikipedia and the photo sharing site Flickr also was restricted Thursday."
I have not yet confirmed the details, but it seems likely to me that rather than saying that Wikipedia has been banned (it hasn't been) we may want to follow the AP story more directly.  Notice that the AP says "450 links" and Fast Company says "450 websites" - it seems possible that some pages of Wikipedia are blocked/filtered in Pakistan (such as this article, for example) but the entire website is certainly not blocked.
Although of course we shouldn't get involved here in original reporting, perhaps some reporters from Wikinews could be asked to do some legwork to find local people in Pakistan to give a detailed report on access to Wikipedia at the present time.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 15:07, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is not banned in Pakistan 

message: I'm going to delete this unsourced item:
:The PIE is also used to keep track of incoming and outgoing e-mail, which by parliamentary order are kept for a period of at least three months.
Does anyone know if this is true?  Is there a source, law, order, or regulation we can cite? Jeff Ogden (talk) 20:52, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keeping e-mail for at least three months? 

message: This article needs a complete re-write, and is not reflecting the current situation in the country. There is a massive censorship and blockage carried on by PTA and Semi private communication company PTCL, and a software called NetSweeper is being employed very strictly.182.183.199.6 (talk) 14:23, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Article is Out of Date 

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