p2p news / p2pnet: Twelve Pakistan web sites, including blogger.com, have been blocked for posting cartoons of the prophet Mohammed which appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.

On February 28, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority ordered ISPs to block blogspot.com (or blogger.com), "taking down thousands of weblogs hosted by this tool," says Reporters Without Borders, stating:

"We believe that the decision to ban a website should only ever be taken by a judge, at the end of a fair trial. It is moreover unacceptable that the order to block a site should go through the PTA, which while apparently aiming at one blog hosted by blogger.com, led to the filtering of all websites sharing the same domain name."

The PTA ban came about ten days after a petition calling on the government to ban the spread of "blasphemous content" through the Internet was submitted to the Supreme Court which on March 2, "formally asked the government to take such a step," says RWB.

"The bloggers network Global Voices, which revealed the case on its site, has been posting information about campaigns launched by bloggers to condemn the filtering."

Also See:
Mohammed – Animated Jesus, Muhammed cartoons, February 9, 2005
Reporters Without Borders – Twelve websites, including blogger.com, blocked for posting cartoons, March 8, 2006

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