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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ugmdjmali" data-source="post: 7742986" data-attributes="member: 20691">Google, Yahoo and Amazon among sites to be monitored for content deemed offensive to Muslims Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, Yahoo and Amazon, for sacrilegious content, while blocking 17 lesser-known sites that it deems offensive to Muslims, an official said today. The moves follow a temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has long struggled to decide how strict a version of Islam it should follow. Both the Facebook ban and the move announced today were in response to court orders. The sites to be monitored include MSN, Hotmail, YouTube and Bing, said Khurram Mehran, a spokesman for the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. “If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the link shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website,” Mehran said. Mehran said that, under instructions from the ministry of information technology, the authority had begun the process of barring and monitoring the sites. Facebook was not part of the latest petition, which was ruled upon by the judge in the city of Bahawalpur, Mehran said. A top court ordered the ban on Facebook for about two weeks in May amid anger over a page that encouraged users to post images of the prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favourable ones, as blasphemous. YouTube was also briefly blocked at the time. The Facebook ban was lifted after the social-networking site blocked that particular page in Pakistan, but officials said the government would keep blocking other unspecified sites that contained “sacrilegious material”. Pakistan Google Facebook from <a href="http://news1st.tk/?p=28807" target="_blank">http://news1st.tk/?p=28807</a></blockquote>

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