Pakistan controls Google
Pakistan is investigating several major Internet companies on suspicion of blasphemy. Among them is the search engine provider Google.
The companies are accused of disseminating "un-Islamic material". The inspection was initiated by the national telecommunications authority after a provincial court in the East Pakistani region of Punjab ordered the sites to be blocked. As the SDA writes, the providers under observation include Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Amazon, Bing and YouTube as well as 17 smaller providers.
Last month, Pakistan temporarily blocked the Facebook network because a group had called for people to take part in a competition for caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
Last month, Pakistan temporarily blocked the Facebook network because a group had called for people to take part in a competition for caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
