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Authorities in Pakistan are banking on self-censorship to weed out Internet pornography in the conservative Muslim nation. The country plans to soon develop content-filtering software to stop its one million Internet users from accessing adult Web sites, Reuters reported. According to Pakistan's telecommunications officials, over 60 percent of the online population, mostly youngsters, currently visit pornographic sites. This problem is further exacerbated by the boom in Internet cafes that offer Web access for as little as $0.25 (£0.15), the report said. The government plans to put a stop to this through the new software which users can download and install for free, said the report. "The software will be available at the website of the Ministry of Information Technology and people will be allowed to download it without paying any money," Zahir Mohammad Khan, a senior official at state-run Pakistan Telecommunication, was quoting as saying. The report said PTCL had blocked more than 1,800 pornographic sites earlier this year to curb what it termed as a "corrupt and evil" influence. Besides governments, major search machines have also adopted anti-porn measures to prevent underage Net users from viewing explicit online content. For example, Google has introduced a SafeSearch feature for children to filter out links to adult Web sites.
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please send this information to cencerned authorities.

Al-hajvery Internet club is promoting pornography.

Address Main Out Fall Road(Sheikh Abdul Gilani ROAD) Lahore, Pakistan. Ahead of University of Verteriney sciences, just behind Al hajvery Bakery.

via Facebook 27 January, 2004 10:54
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nobody's conscience is good enough to have the software downloaded at one's will.
It has to be enforced from the government, from updown.

Nobody would want the naked woman to go.

via Facebook 23 January, 2006 15:03
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good to know such a step is on it's way, but, wat a big loophole !!!!! , who is ever going to install it? parents, net cafe admins? really ?? bet on it, noone is going to take this seriously, this is smth. which has to be controlled on the govt. level, controlling it on individual basis is smth. v.illogical...consider this, children r more clever nowadays

if PTCL is seriously thinking on this and not planning on "saving" their resources then kindly do smth. about this..... 1800 sites in an year??????? that's all u cud dig out , and ur proud about it ? is a petite number, even a kid knows more than the PTCL knows, i shud say hire kids they'll guide u properly...........seriously, if PTCL is not willing to stop it, y cry on it......... sick ppl.!!

via Facebook 23 January, 2006 15:08
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