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March 06, 2006

Pakistan Blocks Bloggers Over Cartoons, Bush?

Over the last few days, Pakistani bloggers have repeatedly reported being blocked from accessing popular blogging web sites, yet the motives are still unclear.

A recent BBC article, Pakistan Blocks Blogs on Cartoons, suggests that access to blogs has been blocked due to a large number of sites encouraging people to draw their own controversial cartoon: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4771846.stm

Another theory, on Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwith Blog is that the bloggers are being blocked because of President Bush's visit:

http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/acarvin/view?PostID=11675

In response to the censorship, Pakistani bloggers have begun a  "Don't Block the Blog" Campaign, visit the campaign website here:

http://help-pakistan.com/main/dont-block-the-blog/

Posted by Buzz Webster at March 6, 2006 11:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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