The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is enraged over the distribution of an Ahmadi Qur’an and the identification of the Ahmadi leader as a Muslim. If Google and Wikipedia comply with its demands, will Ahmadis and their supporters complain? If the social media giants had stuck to the principle of the freedom of speech in the first place, dilemmas such as this one would not have arisen.
“PTA issues notices to Google, Wikipedia for ‘disseminating sacrilegious content,'” by Javed Hussain, Dawn, December 25, 2020:
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued notices to Google Inc and Wikipedia for “disseminating sacrilegious content” through the two platforms, it emerged on Friday.
In a press release, the authority said it has been receiving complaints regarding “misleading search results associated with ‘present khalifa of Islam’ and an unauthentic version of the Holy Quran uploaded by the Ahmedi community on Google Play Store”.
Being a matter of a very serious nature, the PTA has approached Google Inc with directions to immediately remove the unlawful content, the statement said.
“The platform has been issued the notice under the Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguard) Rules 2020 to remove sacrilegious content to avoid any legal action by the regulator.”
The authority added that complaints were also received regarding hosting blasphemous caricatures of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and dissemination of “misleading, wrong, deceptive and deceitful information” through articles published on Wikipedia portraying Mirza Masroor Ahmad as a Muslim.
“After extensive communication on the matter, Wikipedia has been finally served with the notice to remove the sacrilegious content to avoid any legal action,” the statement said….
mortimer says
Google is now the world’s biggest censor. Pakistan is pushing the envelope with them.
Who’s next on Pakistan’s growing demands for censorship. Google and Wikipedia have a choice now … 75% of the world which is non-Muslim or a minority of fanatical Salafists in Pakistan who are running the country and trying to dictate what the rest of the world should read!
Google and Wikipedia are already implementing bits of Sharia by complying with Pakistan, but the question is WHEN IS THEIR BREAKING POINT when the ‘deal’ with Pakistan is two much for them to accept?
mortimer says
Google and Wikipedia will be complicit in persecuting ‘others’ who are not Salafite Muslims …
Is that what Google and Wikipedia want? To join forces with the Pakistani Muslim bigots?
John says
Just get out of pakistan and leave the Barbarians use their camel phones for information.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Good one, John. Any country who want to impose sharia law on a private concern should have their relationship with said concern terminated post haste. No one
no one should have to tolerate and bend to the whims of intolerant bastards hellbent on
bringing down Western civilization.
Halal Bacon says
fact: the number one location seeking gay porn is pakistan
jirtu says
Halal Bacon, What you say is interesting. Can you provide a source for your information?
gravenimage says
Jirtu, Halal Bacon is correct:
“Pakistan tops list of most porn-searching countries: Google”
According to the data released by Google, Pakistan tops the list of most porn-searching countries and leads the way in porn searches for animals like pigs, donkeys, dogs, cats and snakes, news website SALON reported on Thursday.
It further revealed that six of the top eight porn-searching countries were Muslim states. The country at number two in the list was Egypt, while Iran, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Turkey came in at numbers four, five, seven and eight, respectively…
https://tribune.com.pk/story/823696/pakistan-tops-list-of-most-porn-searching-countries-google
And a lot of this stuff is *very* creepy–pedophilia and bestiality.
Infidel says
Is Google seriously worried about losing the Pakistan ‘market’? When that country today resembles more of Somalia, and even Bangladesh is ahead of them!
But it’s funny seeing Google and Wiki dragged into what is really an internecine muslim conflict, albeit online
Westman says
When Islam was outside of the Western World it was a better situation. The barbarism was not on display, there was a mistique about Egypt’s pyramids, fictional stories of flying carpets, and a sense that any brutality among Muslims was confined to, “over there”.
Now we can listen to Muslim and Indian cab drivers hurl insults at each other in any large Western city, read almost every day of some atrocity that was accompanied by shouts of Allahu Ackbar, read continual online threats from Muslims, observe European no-go zones of non-integrating Muslims, and listen to arrogant demands based on religious sensitivities and a wounded, unjustified, superiority complex.
It is Muslims who are flocking to the West for better lives than Islam could ever create; voting with their feet. No Westerners are looking for a better life in an Islam-governed nation.
There is a reason why Honda and Toyota(Islamic terrorists favorite truck) have no assembly plants in Pakistan. Would you buy a car or truck assembled in Pakistan by workers who observe a defect, saying inshullah, and are more interested in prayer breaks than quality?
Google will capitulate to Pakistan because it’s now about money and power rather than its phony mission statement. It will even lie to itself rather than admit it has been reduced to, “maximizing returns to shareholders”. “Don’t be evil”, has now become, “Do the right thing (for the shareholders)”.
Walter says
Wikipedia is already implementing bits of Sharia but apparently it is not enough. Another example of the direction Wikipedia has been going since a long time is the current discussion on JihadWatch here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#RFC:_%22Jihad_Watch%22,_should_it_be_deprecated_as_a_source?
which is really an attempt to make Wikipedia to accept even more Sharia blasphemy restrictions on criticism of Islam. Of course it is supported by the Islamist Wikipedia editors like “User:Walrus Ji” (a “Wikipedia-sockpuppet” of “User:Winged Blades of Godric” and “User:Aruneek Biswas”).
Keith O says
Just another example of a bunch of primitive, barbaric mudslimes trying to drag the civilised world down to their levels.
Google should pull the plug on this fourth world garbage tip and let’s see how they come crawling back after a few months of no kiddy porn, no gay porn, no running online scams and no screaming that they are the victims of a worldwide conspiracy by the dirty Kafir’s.
Then lets see how many Alloha Snackbar operations they manage to organise from behind their 7th century curtain with no internet.
Kepha says
If Google and Wikipedia stuck to freedom of speech in the American sense, they’d be shut out of the lucrative Chinese market $$$$$
OLD GUY says
Google has no conscience, it’s a corporation with only profit as it’s motivation. The biggest customer gets the perks and the ear of the CEO.
gravenimage says
Pakistan threatens legal action against Google and Wikipedia for Ahmadi Qur’an and Muhammad cartoons
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I hope Google doesn’t cave to Pakistani demands–but they have certainly done so before.