Hi all, Many of you have been of great support during our campaign to get Ministry of IT to shelve their plans for a National Level URL Filtration & Blocking System that was announced in February last year, through your consistent support and pressure we were able to get the ministry to shelve the plan last year.
However, as we feared and as now indicated through multiple media statements, the ministry is pursuing their plans and have in fact now indicated that the filters will be provided through an ISP for "free for one year". As partners and supporters of campaigns run by Civil Society in Pakistan, we are sending out this note to keep you updated on the situation. We've issued a detailed statement regarding the issue alongside extensive resources that we have been producing, including submissions to court in the YouTube case in which our director is Amicus Curiae Here's the link to our statement: http://bolobhi.org/press-releases/minstry-of-it-no-to-internet-filters-censorship/ The successful campaign last year which is now being disregarded : http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,58#thinker100 <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,58#thinker100> Submissions to court: http://bolobhi.org/press-releases/minstry-of-it-no-to-internet-filters-censorship/ <http://bolobhi.org/press-releases/minstry-of-it-no-to-internet-filters-censorship/> Best, Sana -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Director, Bolo Bhi, Advocacy-Policy-Research [http://bolobhi.org] Blogger: Dawn.com [http://blog.dawn.com/author/sana-saleem/] Global Voices: [http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/sana-saleem/] The Guardian:[ www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sana-saleem] Blog: http://sanasaleem.com] Twitter: @sanasaleem<http://twitter.com/sanasaleem> @bolobhi <http://bolobhi.org/>
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