“Blasphemy” and Social Media in Pakistan
Recent social media censorship in Pakistan has sparked renewed attention to the country's blasphemy laws and how they're applied online.
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#IMWeekly: June 20, 2014
In this week's #IMWeekly: Twitter frees up "blasphemous" tweets in Pakistan, an Internet shutdown in Iraq, and one of the largest DDoS attacks ever in Hong Kong.
#IMWeekly: October 21, 2013
In this week's #IMWeekly: how the NSA hacked the Mexican President's email address, the Moroccan government increases Internet controls, and more.
#imweekly: August 12, 2013
In this week's IM Weekly: a sex scandal is scrubbed from China's Internet; multiple human rights and media websites suffer DDoS attacks during Zimbabwe's presidential elections.
#imweekly: July 8, 2013
In this week's #IMweekly: a Wikipedia edit war over Egypt's coup d'état, sentences for Saudi Arabian Facebook users accused of inciting protests, a new government petitioning platform in China, and more.
#imweekly: June 24, 2013
This week Tunisian turned the building responsible for Internet censorship before the Arab Spring into a hackerspace and wifi hotspot, it was discovered that Pakistan has been using filtering technology managed by a Canadian company, human rights activists investigate the Mexican government's use of FinFisher, and Facebook leaked 600 million users' email addresses and phone numbers.