Pakistan censorship on text messages

RemadERemadE Global Moderator
edited December 2011 in Spurious Generalities
I heard of this while watching "Have I got news for you", a UK program about news stories etc, and some of the phrases they banned are just pure comedy.
Phrases such as "beat your meat," "fairy," and "lovegun" are among the list of words banned in text messages by the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority.
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority's ban on 1,600 words deemed "pornographic or offensive to Islam" has flabbergasted much of the international media. Now, many global gay rights advocates are drawing attention to the number of LGBT-related words on the black list.
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