It refers to the social networking portal in Pakistan, alternative to Facebook that came up as a response to ban on Facebook by judiciary after complaints of blasphemous content on Facebook against Islam.
The ban was nothing but an example of curbing freedom of expression, as in other parts of the world including India, of entire population and blocking all content. If some content of a social networking portal or book or something of that sort is against larger social code of conduct harming other people's sentiments there is every reason to get that particular content removed.
But it does not mean that this small portion should lead to curbing an entire social networking portal which benefits individuals and society in many other ways as well.
Probably better sense prevailed and later on the ban was removed keeping individual pages containing blasphemous content blocked.
This case is not one in isolation. In China there is Weibo which is alternative to blocked Twitter. In China divulging any information outside China itself is blasphemous. Every other social network is closed within China or blocked or heavily monitored and censored.
Back home the Jinnah Book case of Jaswant Singh, M.F. Hussain case and so on fall in a sort of similar category.
The ban was nothing but an example of curbing freedom of expression, as in other parts of the world including India, of entire population and blocking all content. If some content of a social networking portal or book or something of that sort is against larger social code of conduct harming other people's sentiments there is every reason to get that particular content removed.
But it does not mean that this small portion should lead to curbing an entire social networking portal which benefits individuals and society in many other ways as well.
Probably better sense prevailed and later on the ban was removed keeping individual pages containing blasphemous content blocked.
This case is not one in isolation. In China there is Weibo which is alternative to blocked Twitter. In China divulging any information outside China itself is blasphemous. Every other social network is closed within China or blocked or heavily monitored and censored.
Back home the Jinnah Book case of Jaswant Singh, M.F. Hussain case and so on fall in a sort of similar category.
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