Pakistan Monitoring Major Websites For Sacrilegious Content

According to Salon, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority under order from the Ministry of Information Technology is monitoring seven major websites for sacrilegious content. The sites being monitored are: Yahoo, Google, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Amazon and Bing. It will block links on these sites to offensive content. It is also completely blocking access to 17 other less well-known websites, including islamexposed.blogspot.com. The action was taken in response to an order by a court in the city of Bahawalpur, and follows a court-ordered temporary ban on access to Facebook last month. (See prior posting.)