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India-Pakistan
Censoring tweets in Pakistan
2014-05-25
[DAWN] "Twitter Institutes Country Withheld Content Tool in Pakistain for the First Time," read the headline of a post published on the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse website on May 18, 2014. In it were details of five requests made to Twitter by the Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA), seeking to restrict `blasphemous' and`unethical' tweets and user accounts, which Twitter complied with.

The requests made by the PTA named specific accounts and links to tweets that it wanted 'withheld' from Pakistain. The first request was made on May 5, 2014, and the most recent on May 14, 2014. The 'law' cited in all the requests, was the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC). However,
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which PPC provision/clause was applicable in each case, was not specified. While it's not difficult to guess what provision was used to justify blasphemous content, what acceptable legal definition PTA used for 'unethical' content that was accepted by Twitter is quite unclear.
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