Crowdsourcing censorship: PTA Stepping Up “Content Blocking” In Pakistan
In a newspaper ad published today, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority issued a public notice mainly advertising their complaint cell & asking users report URLs containing content that...
View ArticleBlocking of YouTube: What’s Legal, What’s Not
Published in the January 2014 edition of the All Pakistan Law Decisions Journal Section, “Why the YouTube Ban is Illegal and Undesirable” by lawyer Babar Sattar, discusses the legality of the YouTube...
View ArticleTo Block or Not to Block: YouTube
This article was originally published in Newsline’s September 2013 issue “We’ve taught YouTube a lesson by banning it and forcing Google to lose out on revenue in Pakistan because it did not remove the...
View ArticleNetsweeper in Use in Pakistan
There is a strong reason to believe now that the traffic for our gateways is being managed by Netsweeper. The research revolves around one of the key gateways that handles network traffic for Karachi,...
View ArticleMoIT Says Will Only Comply With Court – But Has It?
Last week, members of the Bolo Bhi team observed a session at the National Assembly, anticipating a resolution to unban YouTube to be tabled. Member of National Assembly MNA Shazia Marri (PPP) had...
View ArticleSubmission to Court in YouTube Case: May 13, 2014
Date: May 13, 2014 Writ Petition 9582013: BytesforAll vs Federation Lahore High Court Submitted to: Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah & Justice Atir Mahmood Honourable Sirs, Below is a summary of the...
View ArticleOf Legal Theory & Pakistani Politics
James Madison, an American statesman, a political theorist and fourth President of the United States of America from 1809 to 1817 once stated: “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws...
View ArticleAccess Is My Right Survey Report
In July 2014, Bolo Bhi launched a survey to collate the opinion of Internet users in Pakistan about their experience with their Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The aim of this survey was to gauge...
View ArticleThe Pakistan Penal Code and Online Content
In April 2014, Facebook released its second transparency report. This showed that they had complied with a Pakistan government request for restriction of content on the basis of ‘criticism of the...
View ArticleFAQ: PTA-PEMRA
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority [PTA] & Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority What is PTA? PTA is an agency responsible for all telecommunication operations, including establishment,...
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