Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials....


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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Sunday blocked access to Twitter in response to 'blasphemous' material posted by users on the microblogging and social networking website, a senior government official said.


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Another day, another example of a country making it harder for its citizens to use the web and some of its most effective channels of communication. There are reports coming in from Pakistan that it has become the latest country to ban the use of Twitter. According to the blog Dawn , the chairman of Pakistan's telecommunications authority has today imposed the restriction because of blasphemous content: it reports that Chairman Mohammad Yaseen blocked the site today 'because Twitter refused to remove material related to a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.' Facebook, apparently, has complied with the request, says the blog. Others are now starting to report the same circumstances, and below the break we have a screenshot of how accessing the site looks from one of our...


ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The chairman of Pakistan's telecommunications authority says the government has blocked the social networking website Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam....


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