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Pakistan Blocks Access to Twitter, Then Thinks Better of It
Gawker
... following the promotion of a "blasphemous and inflammatory" Facebook contest to draw the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Dear all, I assure u that Twitter and FB will continue in our country and it will not be blocked. Pl do not believe in rumors Mohammad ...
Pakistan restores Twitter after blockBBC News
Report: Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Blasphemous Content, Facebook Complies?TechCrunch
Pakistan bans, then unblocks Twitter over 'blasphemous' Muhammad drawingsVentureBeat
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Pakistan's Attempt To Ban Twitter At The Weekend Was A Complete Failure
Business Insider
The ban was handed down to the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan because of Twitter's refusal to remove “blasphemous” content from their site, namely, tweets encouraging people to participate in the “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day”, ...
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Amid cancellation rumors, Gaga 2nd night pushing through
Philippine Star
By Dexter Rodrigo Matilla (philstar.com) Updated May 22, 2012 03:42 PM 0 This was the reaction by veteran promoter Renen de Guia of Ovation Productions as rumors of the cancellation of Lady Gaga's second night started to swirl even as state censors ...

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Happy Birthday, Dave Gahan: 5 Essential Depeche Mode Songs
Houston Press (blog)
"Blasphemous Rumors": If Gore was trying to get away from Depeche Mode's early image as synth-pop pretty boys who only sang lightweight love songs ("Dreaming of Me"), he did a good job with this one shaking an angry fist at an indifferent God for ...

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Apple censors blasphemous word in iTunes
Today's iPhone
By Stephen Warwick May 18, 2012 2:11 pm EST Comments In a massive show of disapproval, Apple has cracked down cyber-crusade style on a blasphemous word that has plagued its iTunes store almost since it opened. So what is it this, obscene, ...

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Salon
Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous. Yaseen said Facebook agreed to address Pakistan's concerns about the competition, but officials have failed to get Twitter to do the same. “We have been negotiating ...

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The ban that became a bane
The News International
The decision to block Twitter was taken early on Sunday morning by the authorities, ostensibly in reaction to certain blasphemous material being circulated there. However, while no one was condoning such sacrilegious activity, the drastic step of ...